Kim: Illustrated by Ian Beck

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Kimball OHara, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, spends his childhood on the bustling streets of Lahore, begging and running errands in order to survive. One day he meets an old Tibetan lama, and he decides to accompany him on his travels across the Indian subcontinent. After falling into the hands of his fathers old regiment, however, Kim is separated from the lama and sent away to school. There, his natural flair for espionage is spotted, and he is soon catapulted among the majestic peaks of the Himalayas to play his part in the secret services confrontation with Russia, the so-called Great Game. With its peerless evocation of the teeming cities, breathtaking landscapes and diverse cultures of late-nineteenth-century India, Kim is widely considered to be Kiplings masterpiece and one of the greatest novels written in the English language.

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Famous for his tales of adventure in British India, Rudyard Kipling (18651936) is one of the most popular writers of all time and the first English-speaking recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.