Kim, né Kimball O’Hara, wears his Irish soldier father’s ID round his neck and survives by running errands for a wily Pashtun horse trader with an ancient Islamic proverb to suit every occasion. Set against the background of the Great Game being played between Britain and Russia on the north-west frontier after the second Afghan war, it tells the story of an 11-year-old orphan boy who looks and sounds like a native but beneath his filthy rags is white. The real protagonist in his magical adventure, however, is India in all its teeming life, mystery and beauty, highlighted by a captivating narration.Įspionage has become so sophisticated and hi-tech that it’s difficult to believe that this, the greatest of all spy stories, was published more than a century ago when agents relied on wits rather than gadgets. Kim, the ‘little friend of all the world’ and chela or disciple to the questing lama, is caught up in the espionage of ‘the Great Game’. Titles by Rudyard Kipling Titles by Rudyard Kipling Great Ghost Stories (unabridged) The Jungle Books (abridged) Just So Stories (unabridged) Kim (abridged) Kim (unabridged) The Great Poets – Rudyard Kipling (selections) The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories (unabridged) Puck of Pook’s Hill (unabridged) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Other Stories (unabridged) Reviews
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