This 1901 novel is the primary central fiction of Rudyard Kipling’s career. He wrote other novels like Captain Courageous, Gunga Din, and obviously The Jungle Book(s), and he was of course quite well known as a poet — famously for “If” and infamously for “The White Man’s Burden.” And he would go on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature 5 or so years after this was published — the first writer in English to do so. So this novel follows Kim, a boy of […]