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Kim

by Rudyard Kipling · 1901

Classics · ranked #116 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secre

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The verdict

Category
Classics
First published
1901 · 1900s
Author
Rudyard Kipling
Standing
Recommended

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