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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780486445083
ISBN: 0486445089
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 08, 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 82805
Studio: Dover Publications
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Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard Kipling set his final and most famous novel in India, where an Irish orphan becomes the disciple of a Tibetan monk while learning espionage tactics from the British secret service. A terrific choice for Kipling fans and lovers of exotic tales of adventure.
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Rating: - A spiritual journey
This was Kipling's only full-length novel. For it he was reviled, during his lifetime, both as an imperialist and as an Indian-independence sympathizer. In truth, the novel reflects Kipling's own experience - first as child abandoned by his parents while they went to India, then as a treasured child upon whom all the love and attention of the Indian Ayahs (nannies) was showered, when his parents returned and took him to India to live.
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Rating: - unforgettable
This is one of those books that, even if you read then at an early age, you'll always remember with tenderness. It has adventure, fun, suspense; it makes you think about life and people in different parts of the world. When I first read it - I was sixteen - I wanted to go to India and see all those places and villages. I read it until today with the same pleasure.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8
EAN: 9780486445083
ISBN: 0486445089
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: November 08, 2005
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 82805
Studio: Dover Publications