Kim

Rudyard Kipling · 1901 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

An orphaned Irish boy running errands in the bazaars of Lahore attaches himself to a Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river, and on the same day accepts a message to carry for a horse dealer who works for British intelligence. The Grand Trunk Road, a regiment that recognizes his father's papers, and a schooling in survey chains and disguise pull him between the road and the Great Game. Kipling's most generous book about India, and the one from which the modern spy novel takes its equipment.

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• ↓ A Passage to India
  E. M. Forster · 1924 CE · Novel — responds to this

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