Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Written by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Sam Dastor
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged

Kipling’s masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written. It explores the life of Kimball O’Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment. The pilgrimage will take them across the vast continent, across rivers, and up the Himalayas.

While Kim wishes to take part in the imperialistic Great Game, learning espionage from the British secret service, he feels spiritually bound to the lama. Kim has a difficult choice to make: his companion or his country?

A rich and colourful depiction of India’s exotic landscape and culture in the imperialistic world of the late 19th century, this audiobook celebrates their friendship and explores a young man’s quest for identity.

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist who was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Some of his most memorable works include The Jungle Book and Just So Stories.

In 1998 Kim was ranked at Number 78 on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003 it was listed on the BBC’s The Big Read poll of the UK’s ‘best-loved novel’.