Penguin Essentials : Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard

ISBN 10: 0140282645 / ISBN 13: 9780140282641

Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 1999

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Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 39100491-20

Bibliographic Details

Title: Penguin Essentials : Jungle Book

Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited

Publication Date: 1999

Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Kipling never visited the jungles of Central India, yet his descriptions have a breathtaking imaginative power, and in Mowgli, the boy who grows up among wolves, he created one of the most popular and enduring of modern literary myths. Mowgli's companions and enemies include such unforgettable creatures as Shere Khan, the tiger, and Bagheera, the black panther. Mowgli's adventures comprise a rich and complex fable of human life which will never be forgotten.

About the Author:

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. He started working as a journalist in India in 1882 and wrote Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) which made him an instant literary celebrity on his return to England in 1889. After marrying he moved to Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894). Other works include: Kim (1901), Just So Stories (1902), A Diversity of Creatures (1917) and Debits and Credits (1926). He was the first English writer awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907. He died in 1936.