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Kim

Rudyard Kipling

  • 286 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1901
  • 934 editions
  • Free to read
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1 About this book

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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  • India in fiction
  • Classics
  • Adventure
  • Voyages and travels
  • Enlightenment
  • Kindness
  • India
  • Spy stories

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3 About Rudyard Kipling

1865–1936

Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888).

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