With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Kim is Rudyard Kipling's finest work. Now controversial, this novel is a memorably vivid evocation of the
In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't until Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama that his life transforms: the
′"I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.′Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia′s political struggle in central Asia, Kim, the son of a drunken Irish soldi