- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Signet Classics (Jan 1 1981)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451521927
- ISBN-13: 978-0451521927
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
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Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865. During his time at the United Services College, he began to write poetry, privately publishing Schoolboy Lyrics in 1881. The following year he started work as a journalist in India, and while there produced a body of work, stories, sketches, and poems —including “Mandalay,” “Gunga Din,” and “Danny Deever”—which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim—which became widely regarded as his greatest long work, putting him high among the chronicles of British expansion. Kipling returned to England in 1902, but he continued to travel widely and write, though he never enjoyed the literary esteem of his early years. In 1907, he became the first British writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. He died in 1936
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It was seven o'clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills3 when Father Wolf woke up from his day's rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Read the first page
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What magic lies between the covers of this book!, Feb 22 2006
By S. Schwartz "romonko" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Modern Classics Jungle Books (Paperback)
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading these wonderful stories again, and it was a bonus having all of Rudyard Kipling's stories together in one volume. This book has all the Mowgli stories, plus other favourites like "Riki-Tiki-Tav", "Toomai of the Elephants", and many more. Reading these again affirmed my belief of Kipling's great skill as a storyteller. These stories had appeal for me when I was younger, but they have a different appeal for me now. Kipling's descriptions and characterizations are wonderful, and they put the reader right there in the jungle with Mowgli and Bagheera, and all Mowgli's other friends. We who love to read should not forget to read these wonderful stories once in awhile. Modern short story authors still have to go some to even begin to match these classics by a great author.
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Wow Book, Dec 18 2005
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This review is from: Modern Classics Jungle Books (Paperback)
The Jungle Book is a story about a young boy whose life is paid for with a bull brought down by Bagera, a black panther. Mowgali lived his life in the pack until a tiger (Sher Khan) convinced the pack to hate Mowgali because he is a man cub and is a potential threat to them in the future. So Mowgali makes his life among men in the village and then is threatened once again by Sher Khan and after Mowali destroyed Sher Khan he took the pelt to the pack and told them off. I really liked this book but it used old English that was hard to get the hang of at first.I liked this book because it had a lot of action. When Mowgali was taken to the ruins he was throne into a pit with poisonous snakes by the mutinous monkeys. In the story "Toomai of the Elephants," the elephants stomp down the area around them in a triumphant dance. In the part of the Jungle Book Mowgali had to kill Sher Khan, and he had to herd the bulls to go and attack Sher Khan.
This book was a little difficult to read. It was difficult because it was all phrased in old English like art, hath, thou, ect., . There were also a few different stories and they were hard to follow at times. There were a lot of characters that were in each of the stories and there were a lot of characters that had hard to pronounce.
In this book had a lot of animals and the humans weren't completely portrayed as protagonists. In the "White Seal" the humans killed the seals for their coats and all the seals that were always in constant danger. In "The Jungle Book" there are hunters who are just going to kill Sher Khan just for game and not for a reason. In "Toomai of the Elephants" the protagonist wasn't completely clear but I really liked how little Toomai observed the elephants and didn't pose harm to the Elephants.
This was a thrilling collection of stories with action even though it was a little hard to read. I liked this book because it had a lot of action, a lot of animal characters, but it was a little tough to read. In one of the stories Sher Khan wants to kill Mowgali. I recommend this book for people in sixth grade or higher because of the vocabulary and other parts of the book.
R. Roston
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