| Kim Contributor(s): Kipling, Rudyard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1534793178 ISBN-13: 9781534793170 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $18.02 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1901 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 8" W x 10" (0.94 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 'Oh ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, Be gentle when the heathen pray To Buddha at Kamakura ' HE sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon, ' hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. There was some justification for Kim, -he had kicked Lala Dinanath's boy off the trunnions, -since the English held the Punjab and Kim was English. Though he was burned black as any native; though he spoke the vernacular by preference, and his mother-tongue in a clipped uncertain sing-song; though he consorted on terms of perfect equality with the small boys of the bazar; Kim was white-a poor white of the very poores |