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Kim

Kim

Summary

Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World', an cheeky imp with an endless interest in the extraoridinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British...

Kipling's masterpiece with a fascinating introduction by Susan Cooper, author of the award-winning Dark is Rising series.

Reviews

  • The Puffin Classics series is a perfect marriage of the old and the new. Enjoy some of the best books from the past and find out why and how they inspired some fo the best writers of the present.
    Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4Kids

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Rudyard Kipling

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