The Jungle Book: Annotated
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798516657788
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-06-07
- Author
- Rudyard Kipling
Description
The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories written by Rudyard Kipling.The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed First published in 1894, "The Jungle Book" is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling that he wrote while he lived in India. "The Jungle Book" has remained popular, partly through its many adaptations for film and other media. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seonee" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh. The stories tell mostly of Mowgli and learns self-sufficiency and wisdom from the jungle animals. The book describes the social life of the wolf pack and, more fancifully, the justice and natural order of life in the jungle.
