Jungle Books

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Jungle Books

Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

Author: Rudyard Kipling

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Collection: Oxford World's Classics

Language: English

Published by: OUP Oxford

Published on: 18th June 1998

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780191647291


The Jungle Books

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the Mowgli stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. 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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