Kim, Great Game & Rudyard Kipling

Instructor: Paula Marcus

Location: Birch Bay Village Inn Library, Village Inn Road, off Crooked Road, Hulls Cove.

Course Meets: Tuesdays,

Course Size: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Starts: April 10, 2012

Ends: May 15, 2012

Description:

This class is an exploration of Kim - the Northwest Frontier, the Great Game of espionage, the love of a boy of one race for an old lama of another and the pageantry of the Raj. It includes the culture of the Pathans of Afghanistan, and the controversial life of Rudyard Kipling, the youngest
person and the first writer in English to win a Nobel Prize for Literature.

Instructor: Paula Marcus. “After teaching Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde I am now adventuring further into 19th and early 20th Century literature with Kipling.”