An Irish orphan navigates colonial India alongside a Tibetan lama in Kipling's tale of identity and the Great Game.
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Rudyard Kipling's Kim is one of the strangest and most unforgettable novels in English — a boy spy, a wandering lama, and the whole teeming world of British India.
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O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when “the heathen” pray To Buddha at Kamakura! 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…
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