(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Rudyard Kipling
"He who can see all castes and all creeds from the outside is, indeed, fortunate."
Kimball O'Hara — Kim — is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, raised on the streets of Lahore, fluent in the languages and customs of India, equally at home in a Hindu temple or a Muslim caravanserai. When he falls in with an elderly Tibetan lama on a religious quest, and is simultaneously recruited as a spy for the British Secret Service, his extraordinary double life becomes the engine of one of the most richly observed adventure novels ever written.
Published in 1901 and widely considered Kipling's masterpiece, Kim is a novel that defies easy categorisation: part coming-of-age story, part espionage thriller, part meditation on identity, belonging, and the meeting of cultures. The novel's India — teeming, contradictory, magnificently alive — is rendered with an intimacy and affection that no other novelist of the period achieved.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents Kipling's original, unabridged text — a seminal work of world literature, in a format worthy of it.
