The Jungle Book
$43.31
- Hardcover
272 pages
- Release Date
25 November 1994
Summary
Among the best loved of all classics for children are the tales of Mowgli, the boy who learned the law of the jungle as he grew up among a pack of wolves in India’s Seeonee Hills. First published in 1894, the book imagines a child living and flourishing in a community of animals - an idea that perhaps had its origin in Kipling’s unhappy childhood. ‘His stories are not animal stories in the realistic sense; they are wonderful, beautiful fairy tales, ’ wrote Ernest Thompson Seton, the great Can…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857159325 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857159322 |
| Author: | Rudyard Kipling |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library Children's Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 25 November 1994 |
| Weight: | 483g |
| Dimensions: | 211mm x 163mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in 1865 to British parents, and brought up by a Portuguese ‘ayah’ (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged sixteen, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills. After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book. He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who later tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on 18 January 1936.
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