Author(s): Rudyard Kipling

Fiction

The text-that of the 1901Sussex Edition-is fully annotated and accompanied by three maps thathelp students place the novel in geographical and historical contexts.

"Backgrounds" explores the novel's complicated issues ofmulticulturalism, imperialism, and racism, allowing readers to glimpseKipling's personal thoughts about British expansionism.  Included aretwo short stories, poems, and letters by Kipling, as well asautobiographical and biographical memoirs and contemporary reviews ofKim.

"Criticism" collects fourteen wide-ranging assessments of the novel byNoel Annan, Irving Howe, Edward Said, Ian Baucom, A. Michael Matin,John A. McClure, Anne Parry, Michael Hollington, Parama Roy, SaraSuleri, Patrick Williams, Suvir Kaul, Mark Kinkead-Weekes, and ZohrehT. Sullivan.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.