![]() ![]() His parentage is discovered and the officers decide he must be raised as a âSahibâ (an Englishman) and sent off to school. ![]() Not long after, Kim is captured at an encampment of British soldiers under suspicion of being a thief. He decides to fall in with the lama on his travels, and becomes in essence the old manâs disciple. Knowing little of his parentage, he is as much a native as his companions, speaking Hindi and Urdu rather than English, cunning and street-wise.Īt about the age of twelve, Kim encounters an old Tibetan lama on a pilgrimage in search of a holy river. Rudyard Kiplingâs novel Kim, published in 1901, tells the story of Kimball OâHara (âKimâ), the orphaned son of an Anglo-Irish soldier, who grows up as a street-urchin on the streets of Lahore in India during the time of the British Raj. ![]() Â 34 in the Guardianâs Best 100 Novels in English (2015) Â 78 in the Modern Libraryâs 100 Best Novels Standard Ebooksġ06,723 words (6 hours 29 minutes) with a reading ease of 82.85 (easy) Kim, by Rudyard Kipling - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. ![]()
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