The Jungle Book (Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1905716567 ISBN 13: 9781905716562

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2009

Synopsis

The Jungle Book shows Kipling's writing for children at its best. It is a collection of short stories and poems revolving round the boy Mowgli, who was raised by a pack of wolves in India. We meet the tiger Shere Khan who attacked and drove off Mowgli's parent, Bagheera, the black panher, Baloo, 'the sleepy brown bear', and the evil python, Kaa. Other stories include Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The White Seal and Toomai of the Elephants, and the book contains the original illustrations of J. Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) and W. H. Drake.With an Afterword by David Stuart Davies.

About this title

About the Author

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905716567
• ISBN 13: 9781905716562
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216