Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), “The Jungle Book”, 1894.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), “Tarzan of the Apes”, 1912 was the topic of an earlier blog post.

Here I present: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), “The Jungle Book”, 1894 which was a collection of animal short stories.

 

About the Book. 

The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.  Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though the 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” in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.  A major theme in the book is abandonment followed by fostering, as the life of Mowgli, echoing Kipling’s own childhood.

 

 

This book is not a novel; the book is a collection of short stories.  The “table of contents” of this collection of short stories is shown BELOW.

 

Here I presented: Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), “The Jungle Book”, 1894 which was an India jungle story.

Mowgli मोगली is the boy protagonist  from Madhya Pradesh, INDIA; and he is raised by wolves, as a man-cub (Mowgli is shown ABOVE).

Shere Khan शेर खान is the tiger antagonist. Mowgli मोगली the boy protagonist challenge is the tiger Shere Khan शेर खान (Shere Khan is shown ABOVE).

This book was adapted to film in 1942; and, the screen still-photograph (shown ABOVE) is of Mowgli killing Shere Khan.

 

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), “Tarzan of the Apes”, 1912 was the topic of an earlier blog post.