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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
13 chapters and parts · about 4 hours to read
What the book is about
"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories published in 1894. The tales follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, alongside animal characters like Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. Through these fables, Kipling explores themes of abandonment and fostering, law and freedom, and the balance between civilization and wildness. The stories teach lessons about respect for authority while celebrating the freedom to move between different worlds, using animals as archetypes for human nature and society.
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- Adventure stories, English
- Animals
- Feral children
- India
- India -- History -- 19th century
Chapters
The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling, is in the public domain in the United States. Text from Project Gutenberg, eBook #236, with thanks. Sureno removed Project Gutenberg's header and licence and set the text in large print; this is not an official Project Gutenberg edition. Outside the United States, check your own country's copyright rules before copying it.
