The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
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"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 |
|---|---|
| Title | The Jungle Book |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 87.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Animals -- Fiction |
| Subject | Jungles -- Fiction |
| Subject | India -- Fiction |
| Subject | Jungle animals -- Fiction |
| Subject | Mowgli (Fictitious character) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Adventure stories, English |
| Subject | Feral children -- Fiction |
| Subject | India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 236 |
| Release Date | Jan 16, 2006 |
| Last Update | May 1, 2023 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 16564 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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