Adventure
A recurring idea that shapes Kim.

Kim’s travels across colonial India mix espionage, spiritual searching, linguistic agility, and questions of identity.
Kim’s travels across colonial India mix espionage, spiritual searching, linguistic agility, and questions of identity.
The author of Kim.
Explore author profileThis work develops its ideas directly rather than through a character-led narrative.
Kim belongs to the literary and cultural world of Public-domain literature.
Kim’s travels across colonial India mix espionage, spiritual searching, linguistic agility, and questions of identity.
Begin by following how adventure and empire-adventure shape the work’s central choices.
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