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Kim

Rudyard Kipling

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1901
Pages
Pages 350

An orphaned Irish boy running wild in colonial India attaches himself to a wandering holy man searching for a sacred river, while British spies quietly groom him for their intelligence war with Russia, serving both the search and the game.

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House.
Kim, Rudyard Kipling

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