Rudyard kipling kim book5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() But that’s just because he is curious, growing up and wanting to find out who he is. He is naturally curious, at once worldly and yet naive. Kim, through being a street urchin of many years standing, knows everyone and everything, and wants to know more. Yes, Kim comes into contact with people playing The Great Game, but that’s not what the book is about in any way shape or form. Well, the first from my list of the best spy books ever, that has actually lived up to at least part of its billing. Filled with rich description and vivid characters, this beguilling coming of age story is considered to be Kipling’s masterpiece. Kim (first published in 1901), celebrates their friendship and their journeys ina beautiful but hostile environment, capturing the opulence of the exotic landscape and the uneasy presence of the British Raj. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children, as he lives on the streets, but he is white, a Sahib, and wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, while the priest must find redemption from the Wheel of Life. A boy growing into manhood, and an old ascetic priest are on a quest. ![]()
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