The Jungle Book (World's Classics S.)

by Rudyard Kipling (Author), W. W. Robson (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.26

  The Jungle Books, regarded as classis stories told by an adult to children and best known for the Mowgli series, also constitutes a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery and the nature of the Law.

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  Paperback
  2004

  $17.17

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.26

• New

  Paperback
  1993

  $6.80

  The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of the friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.