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The Jungle Books By Rudyard Kipling (Hardback, 2014)
Kipling's best-loved work now in a gorgeous new clothbound edition designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith These delectable and collectable editions are bound in high-quality tactile cloth with foil stamped into the designThe story of Mowgli the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India is one of the greatest literary myths ever created As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo the graceful black panther Bagheera and Shere Khan the tiger with the blazing eyes Other animal stories in The Jungle Books range from the dramatic battle between good and evil in 'Rikki-tikki-tavi' to the macabre comedy 'The Undertakers' With The Jungle Books Rudyard Kipling drew on ancient beast fables
Buddhist philosophy and memories of his Anglo-Indian childhood to create a rich symbolic portrait of man and nature and an eternal classic of childhoodRudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India and while there produced a body of work stories sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills(1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889 His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894) Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902) Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907 He died in 1936 Jan Montefiore has taught at the University of Kent since 1978 where she is now Professor of 20th
Century English Literature She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and MindSelected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007) Kaori Nagai is a Research Associate at the University of Kent and author of Empire of Analogies (2006) She has also introduced Kobo Abe's Face of Another and Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills for Penguin
Buddhist philosophy and memories of his Anglo-Indian childhood to create a rich symbolic portrait of man and nature and an eternal classic of childhoodRudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 In 1882 Kipling started work as a journalist in India and while there produced a body of work stories sketches and poems - notably Plain Tales from the Hills(1888) - which made him an instant literary celebrity when he returned to England in 1889 His most famous works include The Jungle Book (1894) Kim (1901) and the Just So Stories (1902) Kipling refused to accept the role of Poet Laureate and other civil honours but he was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize in 1907 He died in 1936 Jan Montefiore has taught at the University of Kent since 1978 where she is now Professor of 20th
Century English Literature She is the author of Men and Women Writers of the 1930s (1996); Arguments of Heart and MindSelected Essays 1977-2000 (2002); Feminism and Poetry (3rd edition 2004); and Rudyard Kipling (2007) Kaori Nagai is a Research Associate at the University of Kent and author of Empire of Analogies (2006) She has also introduced Kobo Abe's Face of Another and Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills for Penguin
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