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Kim
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Narrator
- Ralph Cosham
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Publish Date
- 30 June 2009
- Run Time
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Classic fiction
What to expect
Kimball O’Hara is an Irish orphan, but he runs free in the streets of India. As a boy, he shows self-reliance and resourcefulness, running errands for Mahbub Ali, who works for the British Secret Service. Kim also meets a Tibetan lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life and becomes his disciple. Together they have wonderful adventures on the exotically colorful Grand Trunk Road through the Indian countryside. Then Kim is pulled into the great game of British imperial espionage and becomes a member of the Secret Service, even capturing documents from the enemy spies. Yet Kim is greatly attached to the lama and begins to feel the conflicting pulls between a life of contemplation and one of action.
Kiplilng’s love for India and its people is evidient throughout this classic story, and its images and characters will stay with you long after you finish the final chapter.
Critics Review
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“Masterful.”
Boston Globe
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“The book is noteworthy for its nostalgic, colorful depiction of Indian culture, especially the diverse exotica of street life.”
Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature
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“[Kipling] chronicled the poorest of Irish orphans…forced to choose between playing the ‘Great Game’ involving the contending imperial powers Britain and Russia and the teachings of a Buddhist lama—as fine a portrait of ethnic and religious crosscurrents and multiculturalism as there is.”
Los Angeles Times
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“Mr. Kipling’s last work is, to my mind, his best, and not easily comparable with the work of any other man.”
The Atlantic
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“The finest novel in the English language with an Indian theme but also one of the greatest of English novels in spite of the theme.”
Nirad C. Chaudhuri, author and cultural commentator
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Details
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
- Narrator
- Ralph Cosham
- Duration
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 30 June 2009
- ISBN
- 9781483089867
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Craig Black
- Genre
- Classic fiction
Synopsis
Kimball O’Hara is an Irish orphan, but he runs free in the streets of India. As a boy, he shows self-reliance and resourcefulness, running errands for Mahbub Ali, who works for the British Secret Service. Kim also meets a Tibetan lama who is on a quest to be freed from the Wheel of Life and becomes his disciple. Together they have wonderful adventures on the exotically colorful Grand Trunk Road through the Indian countryside. Then Kim is pulled into the great game of British imperial espionage and becomes a member of the Secret Service, even capturing documents from the enemy spies. Yet Kim is greatly attached to the lama and begins to feel the conflicting pulls between a life of contemplation and one of action.Kiplilng’s love for India and its people is evidient throughout this classic story, and its images and characters will stay with you long after you finish the final chapter.
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