Kim
Complete textKim grows up resourceful on the streets of Lahore and joins a wandering lama on a spiritual quest. His knowledge of languages and people also draws him toward intelligence work. Travel through India places friendship, disguise, schooling, and competing loyalties alongside the lama’s very different understanding of purpose.
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Movement through crowded roads and institutions gives Kim’s adaptability both pleasure and political significance. His ability to belong in many settings can help him connect with people while also making him useful to imperial power. Compare the habits of attention required by espionage with the lama’s spiritual attention, and question what each journey asks Kim to become.
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Compare Kim’s adaptable street knowledge and intelligence training with the lama’s spiritual journey, paying attention to the loyalties each requires.
This reading edition contains 105,869 words in 15 original sections. Read the text online with adjustable type and three colour themes, or keep a printable PDF.
Author: Rudyard Kipling. Language: English. Reading edition: 28 October 2026.
Opening excerpt
O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when “the heathen” pray To Buddha at Kamakura!
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