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  • Published: 12 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141332505
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.00

Kim




Rediscover Puffin Classics - bringing the best-loved stories to a new generation

Reared in the teeming streets of India at the turn of the century, the orphan Kim is the 'Friend of the all the World', a cheeky imp with an endless interest in the extraordinary characters he meets daily. One of them, an old Tibetan lama, sets him on the path that will lead him to travel the Great Trunk Road, and become a spy for the British...

  • Published: 12 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141332505
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $24.00

Other books in the series

The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis
A Dog's Heart
The Black Tulip
The Lady of the Camellias
Selected Poetry
Venus in Furs
Man and Superman
Botchan
Military Dispatches
The Prelude

About the authors

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, which rewards excellence in nonfiction writing on the global stage, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.

Praise for Kim

The Puffin Classics series is a perfect marriage of the old and the new. Enjoy some of the best books from the past and find out why and how they inspired some fo the best writers of the present.

Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4Kids