Read by Ben Cross
One of the particular pleasures of reading Kim is the full range of emotion, knowledge,
and experience that Rudyard Kipling gives his complex hero Kim O'Hara, the orphaned son
of an Irish soldier stationed in India, is neither innocent nor victimized Raised by an
opium-addicted half-caste woman since his equally dissolute father's death, the boy has
grown up in the streets of Lahore: 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 poorest From his father and the woman who raised him, Kim
has come to believe that a great destiny awaits him The details, however, are a bit fuzzy,
consisting as they do of the woman's addled prophecies of "'a great Red Bull on a green
field, and the Colonel riding on his tall horse, yes, and'--dropping into English--'nine
hundred devils '"

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