The Jungle Books: With Over 55 Original Illustrations (Aziloth Books) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909735612 ISBN 13: 9781909735613

Publisher: Aziloth Books, 2014

Synopsis

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865 and spent his early years reveling in the country's exotic delights. At five he was sent to school in England, and did not returned until 1882, when he worked as a reporter on the Civil and Military Gazette. A prolific writer, he soon became famous for a prodigious range of tales and poems, from the high adventure of The Man Who Would Be King, through the gritty doggerel of Barrack Room Ballads to charming children's story such as Puck of Pook's Hill and, perhaps his most celebrated offering, The Jungle Book. Although it includes such famous tales as 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' The Jungle Book's true hero is Mowgli, a young boy raised with wolves, and hunted by the evil tiger Shere Khan. All is well until the realization dawns in Mowgli that he is human - knowledge he tries to repress as he is appalled by humankind's greed and destructiveness. Through a series of perils and adventures, Mowgli gradually comes to terms with the animal and human facets of his life. Like all good children's stories, these tales have a depth of allegory and symbolism that allows them to be enjoyed by adults as well as children. This edition includes The Second Jungle Book (hence the title: The Jungle Books) and completes the story of Mowgli.  It is a work that can be read throughout a lifetime - one that will bring pleasure and further insights at each reading.

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About the Author:

Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) was born in Bombay, the son of an Anglo-Indian professor of architectural sculpture. There he was brought up in the care of ayahs, or native nurses, who taught him Hindustani and the native lore that always haunted his imagination and can be seen reflected in "The Jungle Books." At the age of six, he was sent to England. At twelve, he was sent to a school at Westward Ho!, the scene of "Stalky & Co." In 1883, he returned to India and embarked on a career in journalism, writing the news stories as well as the tales and ballads that began to make his reputation. After seven years, he went back to England, the literary star of the hour. He married an American and stayed in Vermont off and on from 1892 to 1894. Then he returned to the English countryside, where he remained, except for a few trips abroad, for the rest of his life. The author of innumerable stories and poems, Rudyard Kipling is best known for "Soldiers Three "(1888), "The Light That Failed "(1890), "The Jungle Books" (1894 95), "Captains Courageous" (1897), "Stalky & Co." (1899), "Kim" (1901), and "Just So Stories" (1902). Among many other honors, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
Alberto Manguel is a Canadian citizen born in Buenos Aires who settled in France. He is a member of the Canadian Writers Union, PEN, and a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been named an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Liege in Belgium and the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, England. He has been the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Prix Medicis essay prize (France) for "A History of Reading," the McKitterick prize (England) for his novel "News from a Foreign Country Came," and the Grinzane Cavour prize (Italy) for"A Reading Diary." He also won the German Sanchez Ruiperez Prize (Spain) and the Prix Roger Caillois prize (France) for the ensemble of his work, which has been translated into more than thirty languages.
Alev Lytle Croutier, whose books have been translated into twenty-one languages, is the only woman novelist from Turkey to be published extensively worldwide. She is the author of the international bestseller "Harem: The World Behind the Veil," novels such as" The Palace of Tears" and "Seven Houses "and, for young readers, American Girl s "Leyla: The Black Tulip." The founding editor and editor-in-chief of Mercury House publishing company, she lectures frequently at universities, museums, and conferences."

Review:

"Kipling knew something of the things which are underneath, and of the things which are beyond the frontier."--T. S. Eliot

Kipling knew something of the things which are underneath, and of the things which are beyond the frontier. T. S. Eliot"

About this edition

• Publisher: Aziloth Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909735612
• ISBN 13: 9781909735613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 258