Rudyard Kipling’s classic: Kim as an audiobook.

Set in the days of the British Raj, Kipling’s finest novel is the exciting and touching tale of an Irish orphan-boy who has lived free in the streets of Lahore before setting out, with a Tibetan Lama, on a double quest. This eventually leads to enrollment in the Indian Secret Service and a thrilling climax in the Himalayas.

Kim, probably Kipling’s finest novel, was first published in 1901, but was the result of many years’ germination and grew in large part from the author’s lovingly-remembered time in India, as a boy and later as a young man beginning a career in journalism.

That first job was in Lahore, where Kipling’s father was Curator of the Museum. The young Kipling loved to explore the twilight world of the Lahore slums, absorbing the colour and atmosphere which would later inform the opening chapter of Kim with its affectionate portrayal of the teeming, noisy, exotic city.

Into Lahore comes the dejected but dignified form of the Tibetan lama who is hoping to free himself from the Wheel of Life by finding the River of Immortality. The lama is helped by the charming, curious, lively-minded figure of Kim himself, the Irish orphan boy who thinks of himself as more an Indian than a sahib. From this moment…

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