Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Jungle Books (Manor Books)

Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Jungle Books (Manor Books)

This book contains the complete texts of both "The Jungle Book" (1894) and "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). <br /><br />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.<br /><br />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'.