The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Language: English

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Publisher: Standard Ebooks

Published: May 23, 2016

Collection: Fiction
Reading Ease: 85.51
Page Count: 158
Word Count: 51680

Description:

The Jungle Book is a short collection of stories published by Kipling in various magazines between 1893 and 1894. Kipling spent both his early years and his late teenage years in India, and that upbringing is front and center in these stories—despite them being written while he was living in Vermont, in the United States.

The stories are fable-like, with most of them centering on the lives of anthropomorphised jungle animals and a few focused on human characters in India. The stories were popular from the start, and have since been adapted in countless ways in print, screen, and other media.