Kim (Penguin Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
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Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
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Fiction, Irish, Lamas, Irish in fiction, Orphans, Boys in fiction, Boys, Lamas in fiction, Orphans in fiction, India in fiction, East and West, East and West in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Classic Literature, Juvenile fiction', Conduct of life, Adventure and adventurers, British, Youth, Voyages and travels, Education, Enlightenment (Buddhism), Spies, Kindness, History, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, action & adventure, India, fiction, Fiction, historical, Irish fiction, Adventure stories, English fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Spy storiesPeople
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June 1992, North Books
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First Sentence
"He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."
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