The Jungle Book: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition
The Jungle Book: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.
The Jungle Book is catalogued by Project Gutenberg with author credits for Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936).
Catalogue synopsis
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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.
Book and edition facts
- Title: The Jungle Book
- Author credits: Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936)
- Catalogue language: English
Catalogue subjects
- Adventure stories, English
- Animals -- Fiction
- Feral children -- Fiction
- India -- Fiction
- India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
- Jungle animals -- Fiction
- Jungles -- Fiction
- Mowgli (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Short stories
Gutenberg collections
- Category: Adventure
- Category: British Literature
- Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
- Category: Short Stories
- Children's Literature
- Contemporary Reviews
- Movie Books
- Nobel Prizes in Literature
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