What I got was a stunning and fulfilling experience that I wouldn't have missed for the world! Not being an expert on Indian dialects, I can't say if Sam Dastor's narration is technically correct, but it is perfect for enhancing the listening experience.

King as part of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series.

I finally read this classic because I wanted the background on the character when reading 'The Game' by Laurie R. He has narrated a large catalogue of audiobooks including V.S. His most recent work has included starring on stage at the Wolsey Theatre in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016). He is best known for The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004) and for twice portraying Gandhi in both Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy (1986), and Jinnah (1998).Sam Dastor has starred in many West End productions with roles such as Ariel in The Tempest, and Orlando in As You Like It. In 2003 it was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 'best-loved novel'.Ī Cambridge graduate who trained at RADA under the direction of Sir Laurence Olivier, Sam Dastor has long featured on screen and stage. In 1998 Kim was ranked at Number 78 on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Some of his most memorable works include The Jungle Book and Just So Stories. Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist who was the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kim has a difficult choice to make: his companion or his country?Ī rich and colourful depiction of India's exotic landscape and culture in the imperialistic world of the late 19th century, this audiobook celebrates their friendship and explores a young man's quest for identity.

While Kim wishes to take part in the imperialistic Great Game, learning espionage from the British secret service, he feels spiritually bound to the lama. The pilgrimage will take them across the vast continent, across rivers, and up the Himalayas. When he befriends an aged Tibetan lama his life is transformed as he is requested to accompany him on a mysterious quest to find the legendary River of the Arrow and achieve Enlightenment. It explores the life of Kimball O'Hara, an Irish orphan who spends his childhood as a vagrant in Lahore. Kipling's masterpiece Kim is his final and most famous work and one of the first and greatest espionage stories ever written.

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