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The Jungle Book: I & II
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ISBN13: 9791096314157
Publisher: North Star Editions
Published: Apr 27 2016
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: North Star Editions
Published: Apr 27 2016
Pages: 374
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years The tales in the book (as well as those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.
The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families, and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle.
Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned man cub who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
The most famous of the other four stories are probably Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the story of a heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is followed by a piece of verse.
Very nice edition with french artist Douanier Rousseau famous paintings.
Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned man cub who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle.
The most famous of the other four stories are probably Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, the story of a heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is followed by a piece of verse.
Very nice edition with french artist Douanier Rousseau famous paintings.
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