Kim (The World's Best Reading) by Rudyard Kipling - 1990

Full leather Hardcover 303 pages. Condition Fine Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Reader's Digest World's Best Reading Reprint edition 1990. Striking illustrated full leather tan boards with 1/4 green spine and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.

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Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co. Ltd in October 1901.

The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in 1881, but before the Third, probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.

Considered one of the best works of Rudyard Kipling; he explores many of his childhood memories of India. Kim is an exciting tale of espionage and adventure for kids of all ages 9 to 99.

Kim is a lonely, British orphan boy, born in India. His widowed father was in Queen Victoria's army, but he died, a hopeless, pathetic, drunk. The poorest of the poor he who lives mostly, in the slum streets of Lahore, the Punjab (now part of Pakistan), begging for money, trying to stay alive and surviving, day to day...

Meeting a strange Lama, from faraway Tibet, while playing with his friends, in front of a museum, Kim learns the monk is seeking information, about "The River of The Arrow". According to legend, the Buddha himself, shot an arrow in the sky, and when it landed, a river appeared miraculously. Anyone who bathes in the water, will have all his sins removed, and become pure again. The problem, nobody knows where this stream, is located.