The Second Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

Overview

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 1894-5, often under different titles. The book is less well-known than the original. (Source: Wikipedia)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783958497788
Publisher:	Re-Image Publishing
Publication date:	06/10/2016
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	157
File size:	395 KB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English artist, brief tale essayist, and author, primarily associated with his works for young children and supporting the British government. He was born in British India in the nineteenth century and was shipped off to England when he was six years old for his schooling. Later, he got back to India to start his profession as a columnist, however, shortly after coming here, he went back to his native country where he focused full time on writing. By 1876, eleven-year-old Kipling was practically nearly in a mental meltdown. Luckily his mom was educated about this and in April 1877, she showed up in England to bring away her youngsters from the cultivate back home. A lot later in 1888, he expounded on his trial in 'Baa Black Sheep. Rudyard Kipling is best associated with his assortment of brief tales, 'The Jungle Book'. It comprises seven brief tales. Mowgli, a kid whelp raised by wolves, is the principal character of the book. Other significant characters are a tiger called Sher khan and a bear called Baloo. He is similarly popular for his sonnets, among which 'Mandalay' (1890), 'Gunga Din' (1890), 'The White Man's Burden (1899), 'If... ' (1910), and 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings' (1919) are the most remarkable.

Editorial Reviews

The gift of writing for children is an unaccountable one, bestowed erratically and falling in unexpected places. Mr. Kipling has it in the fullest measure…Certainly the Jungle stories have never been approached in excellence by any other of his prose tales. The field is all his own, and he is safe even from imitators.”

San Francisco Argonaut

It would take too long to enumerate the 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

Neither allegory nor fairy tale; it rises through imagination to something higher. Mr. Kipling does not use the animals of the jungle to illustrate human nature. He makes them akin…An art that is at once greater, more modern, and more human than any we have known.”

Vol. 31 Critic

A pure outburst of genius.”

New York Times