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The Jungle Books (Vintage Classics)

The Jungle Books (Vintage Classics)

by RudyardKipling (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2010

    $76.55

  • Used

    Paperback 2008

    $3.25

  • Used

    Hardcover 1987

    $12.71

  • New

    Paperback 1993

    $6.79
Synopsis

The Jungle Books tell the story of the irrepressible Mowgli, who is rescued as a baby from the jaws of the evil tiger, Shere Khan. Raised by wolves and guided by Baloo the bear, Mowgli and his animal friends embark on a series of hair-raising adventures through the jungles of India.

$76.55

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Vintage Classics
Published: 04 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0099540924
ISBN 13: 9780099540922
Book Overview: 'As a child I loved The Jungle Books... If you want to look at the India of Kipling's time, there is no writer who will give it to you better' Salman Rushdie

Media Reviews
Loved by children and adults alike Daily Mail The original stories of The Jungle Book surpass all rollicking Disneyfied expectations. On one level, the Mancub's education is pure entertainment; on another, the jungle is symbolic of Kipling's philosophy of life, a moral playground in which the young learn to swing on the vines of life The Times One of the greatest writers that Britain has ever produced -- Griff Rhys Jones The incantatory text of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books still rewards reading aloud Sunday Times [Its] lasting power to enchant lies not in a contrived simplicity of language - it makes no concession to the age or verbal dexterity of the reader - but rather to its uncanny understanding of the adult within every child -- Beryl Bainbridge
Author Bio
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India on 30 December 1865. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old but returned to India in 1882 to work as the assistant editor of the Civil & Military Gazette in Lahore. He published poetry and stories in newspapers but it was the publication of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888 that brought him his first major success. His most famous works are Barrack-room Ballads (1892), The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and Just So Stories (1902). The Just So Stories were written for his children and are addressed to his six-year-old daughter Josephine, his 'best beloved', who died of pneumonia in 1899. Rudyard Kipling died on 18 January 1936.