Kim

Rudyard Kipling’s Kim is a novel set in British India that follows Kimball O’Hara, an orphaned boy of Irish descent who grows up in Lahore and moves between different social and cultural worlds. His life becomes connected with the British intelligence network and with a Tibetan lama traveling through India in search of a sacred river.

Published in 1901, the novel combines adventure, coming-of-age narrative, espionage, and travel writing. Alongside