The Second Jungle Book (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

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9780192816559: The Second Jungle Book (The ^AWorld's Classics)

Synopsis

The Second Jungle Book continues the classic Mowgli stories and poems of the first Jungle Book, but unlike the previous volume includes outstanding stories that explore themes outside the life of jungle creatures. This volume also includes as an appendix "In the Rukh," the first Mowgli story to be published.

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About the Author

Geboren am 30.12.1865 als Sohn einer angloamerikanischen Familie in Bombay, gestorben am 18.01.1936 in London. Im Alter von zwei Jahren wurden er bereits nach England geschickt, dort erhielt er seine Ausbildung. Er kehrte 1882 nach Indien zurück und arbeitete dort als Journalist. Kipling erhielt für sein schriftstellerisches Werk 1907 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.

Review

''It would take too long to enumerate even half of the marvelous touches by which the creatures miscalled dumb are made to live for us by Rudyard Kipling . . . The saddest words of this volume are those with which he closes, 'And this is the last of the Mowgli stories!' '' --Vogue

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