Title: Kim
First published: 1901
Description: 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 Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Subjects: Fiction, Irish, Lamas, Irish in fiction, Orphans, Boys in fiction, Boys, Lamas in fiction, Orphans in fiction, India in fiction, East and West, East and West in fiction, Juvenile fiction, Classic Literature, Juvenile fiction', Conduct of life, Adventure and adventurers, British, Youth, Voyages and travels, Education, Enlightenment (Buddhism), Spies, Kindness, History, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, action & adventure, India, fiction, Fiction, historical, Irish fiction, Adventure stories, English fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, Spy stories
Places: India
People: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
Time periods: 19th century