From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him. Though he was burned black as any native though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar Kim was white-a poor white of the very poorest. Raised by an opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has grown up in the streets of Lahore: Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized. One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge, and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero. Notable for its detailed portrait of Indian people, culture, and its varied religions, Kim is Kipling's best serious long novel. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." Rudyard Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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