Tag: Rudyard Kipling

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George Orwell on Kipling

I found George Orwell’s essay on Rudyard Kipling recently. It appears Orwell was responding to a T.S. Eliot essay that prefaced selections of Kipling’s poetry as well as an essay by Edmund Wilson. While much of the review is about the poetry itself (Orwell’s take in a nutshell—third-rate, but a guilty pleasure that speaks to […]

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Kim summary

A central post with all the links to Kim and other Kipling-related material: Kim discussion: Chapters 1 – 5 Kim discussion: Chapters 6 – 10 Kim discussion: Chapters 11 – 15 Kim (1950 movie) Online Kipling resources Kipling’s imperialism As with other summaries, this is also probably the best place to post thoughts on Kim […]

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Kipling’s imperialism

Before I leave Kipling and move on to other works, I wanted to try and articulate my feelings on Kipling’s imperialism. David Cody’s short entry at The Victorian Web does a good job of summing Kipling up as well as putting him in the context of his time. It is easy to dismiss Kipling because […]

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“Kim” (1950 movie)

I was pleasantly surprised for the first two-thirds of the movie that they followed Kipling’s novel in spirit, if not always faithfully. Dean Stockwell as the young Kim turns in an admirable job—it’s not a role I thought would translate to the screen very well. Errol Flynn’s role of Mahbub Ali was exaggerated in importance […]

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Kim discussion: Chapters 11 – 15

A wonderful ending to an enjoyable book. I had gotten a little impatient with the middle section, feeling it was simply marking time. But there was important groundwork being laid that pays off handsomely. There are several different themes and things to talk about, so I’m sure I’ll do the book an injustice, but here […]

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Kim discussion: Chapters 1 – 5

The text for Kim can be found here. Kim is the coming of age story of a 13 year-old orphaned boy, whose father was a British soldier. Kim’s fortune was foretold by his father: The third [document left at Kim’s father’s death] was Kim’s birth-certificate. Those things, he was used to say, in his glorious […]