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Joseph Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Book & The Second Jungle Book

This book contains the complete texts of both “The Jungle Book” (1894) and “The Second Jungle Book” (1895). 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'.
388 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2012
Publication year
2012
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  • Куликов Юрийshared an impression7 years ago

    Да какого чёрта, не собираюсь я делиться никаким впечатлениями

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    Spring is the most wonderful, because she has not to cover a clean, bare field with new leaves and flowers, but to drive before her and to put away the hanging-on, over-surviving raffle of half-green things which the gentle winter has suffered to live, and to make the partly-dressed stale earth feel new and young once more.

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