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Mowgli: Tales from the Jungle Book
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515439202
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Sep 10 2018
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This edition gathers all of the Mowgli stories from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895) and presents them in chronological narrative order for a unified reading experience.
Rather than encountering the tales as originally interspersed among other jungle stories, readers may follow Mowgli's life as a continuous arc-from his rescue and adoption by the wolf pack, through his education under Baloo and Bagheera, to his confrontation with the tiger Shere Khan and his complex return to human society. Presented in story-sequence order, the collection reveals the full structure of Kipling's coming-of-age narrative: exile, belonging, loyalty, betrayal, and independence.
Set within the vividly imagined Indian jungle, the stories combine adventure with moral reflection. Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Hathi the elephant, and even the mischievous Bandar-log monkeys each play their part in shaping Mowgli's understanding of law, courage, and identity. Beneath the action lies Kipling's enduring meditation on community and the tension between the wild and the civilized.
This Wilder Publications edition presents the complete Mowgli cycle in cohesive form, preserving Kipling's original language while offering a streamlined narrative progression.
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