The Jungle Books

by Kipling, Rudyard; Croutier, Alev Lytle

• ISBN13: 9780451529756
• ISBN10: 0451529758
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-05-03
• Publisher: Signet Classics

Summary

The adventures of Mowgli, a man-child raised by wolves in the jungle, have captured the imaginations not just of children, but of all readers, for generations.

Author Biography

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems —including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim—which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Note on the Text	p. 28
The Jungle Book
Preface	p. 33
Mowgli's Brothers	p. 35
Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack	p. 54
Kaa's Hunting	p. 55
Road-Song of the Bandar-Log	p. 79
'Tiger-Tiger!'	p. 80
Mowgli's Song	p. 96
The White Seal	p. 98
Lukannon	p. 116
'Rikki-tikki-tavi'	p. 117
Darzee's Chaunt	p. 132
Toomai of the Elephants	p. 133
Shiv and the Grasshopper	p. 151
Servants of the Queen	p. 152
Parade-Song of the Camp-Animals	p. 168
The Second Jungle Book
How Fear Came	p. 173
The Law of the Jungle	p. 189
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat	p. 192
A Song of Kabir	p. 206
Letting in the Jungle	p. 207
Mowgli's Song against People	p. 233
The Undertakers	p. 234
A Ripple Song	p. 255
The King's Ankus	p. 256
The Song of the Little Hunter	p. 274
Quiquern	p. 275
Angutivun Tina	p. 297
Red Dog	p. 298
Chil's Song	p. 322
The Spring Running	p. 323
The Outsong	p. 343
Notes	p. 345
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