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Format:
Paperback
432 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199536450

Publication date:
July 2008

Imprint: OUP UK

The Jungle Books

Rudyard Kipling and Edited by W.W. Robson

Series : Oxford World's Classics

The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the `Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther.

The stories, a mixture of fantasy, myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's abiding preoccupation with the theme of self-discovery, and the nature of the `Law'.

Readership : General readers, adults and children, students of British, Colonial, and Children's Literature of the 20th century.

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W.W. Robson is Masson Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.

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