Kim adalah sebuah novel karya Rudyard Kipling. Kisah Kim berlatar belakang permainan besar, turut disajikan konflik politik antara Rusia dan Inggris di Asia Tengah. Kim mempopulerkan ungkapan dan gagasan tentang permainan besar. Kim pertama kali diterbitkan secara serial di McClure's Magazine dari Desember 1900 hingga Oktober 1901 serta di Cassell's Magazine dari Januari hingga November 1901, lalu pertama kali diterbitkan dalam bentuk novel oleh Macmillan & Co. Ltd pada bulan Oktober 1901.[1][2][3]

Kim
Sampul edisi Indonesia
PengarangRudyard Kipling
IlustratorH. R. Millar
NegaraBritania Raya
BahasaInggris
GenreMata-mata & Picaresque
PenerbitMcClure's Magazine & Macmillan & Co
Tanggal terbit
October 1901
Jenis mediaPrint & Hardcover
Halaman368
OCLC236914

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  1. ^ Seymour Becker, "The ‘great game’: The history of an evocative phrase." Asian Affairs 43.1 (2012): 61-80.
  2. ^ Ann Parry, "Recovering the Connection between Kim and Contemporary History", in Kipling, Rudyard, Kim (2002), p. 310.
  3. ^ "Kim". in: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Ed. Margaret Drabble and Jenny Stringer. Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference Online.

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The Sussex edition is standard for Kipling's works. Noted critical editions include:

  • Kipling, Rudyard. Kim (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1987). ISBN 0-14-018352-3 With an introduction and notes by Edward Said.
  • Kipling, Rudyard, Kim, (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002). ISBN 0-393-96650-X A modern edition with extensive notes, essays, maps and references.
  • Benedetti, Amedeo, Il Kim di Kipling. In: "LG Argomenti", Genova, Erga, a. XLIII (2007), n. 4, pp. 17–21.
  • Hopkirk, Peter, Quest for Kim: in Search of Kipling's Great Game (London: John Murray, 1996). ISBN 0-7195-5560-4 The author visits the locations of the novel and discusses the real-life personages that may have possibly inspired its characters.
  • Wilson, Angus, The Strange Ride of Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Works, (New York, The Viking Press: 1977). ISBN 0-670-67701-9

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