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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901.
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India, often described Kipling's novel Kim as one of his favourite books. [165] [166] G. V. Desani, an Indian writer of fiction, had a more negative opinion of Kipling. He alludes to Kipling in his novel All About H. Hatterr: I happen to pick up R. Kipling's autobiographical Kim. Therein ...
Kim's Game is a game or exercise played by Scouts, [1] the military, and other groups, in which a selection of objects must be memorised. The game develops a person's capacity to observe and remember details. The name is derived from Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim, in which the protagonist plays the game during his training as a spy. [2]
Mowgli attacking Shere Khan: detail from a clay bas-relief by John Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard Kipling, from The Works of Rudyard Kipling Vol. VII: The Jungle Book, 1907. This is a list of characters that appear in Rudyard Kipling 's 1894 The Jungle Book story collection, its 1895 sequel The Second Jungle Book , and the various film ...
Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim” is set to get an animated feature adaptation by Indian filmmaker Ketan Mehta. Mehta’s animation studio, Cosmos-Maya, will co-develop the film alongside Irish ...
Kimball O'Hara, protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim; Miguel O'Hara is an alternative futuristic version of the comic book superhero Spider-Man; Neely O'Hara, character in Valley of the Dolls; Scarlett O'Hara, literary protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind; Scarlett (G.I. Joe), a female character whose actual name is ...
A notable use of the name was the fictional street urchin Kimball O'Hara in Rudyard Kipling's book Kim, published in 1901. The name is also found in the opening of Edna Ferber 's 1926 novel Show Boat , whose female protagonist, Magnolia names her baby daughter Kim; the name was inspired by the convergence of the three states Kentucky, Illinois ...
The working mom is an emblem of the 21st century. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris didn’t change her last name after marrying her husband Douglas Emhoff, and it's kind of a big deal.