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No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle
Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much
life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood
fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as
a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up
on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill.
Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the
Jungle-People--co
內容簡介:
The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adopted
by a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and the
tiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli''s parents, and of the
friendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, and
Baloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws of
the Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the most
thrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in which
Mowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How Fear
Came and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, which
brings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leave
Bagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.
關於作者:
Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of
five, Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 is today best known as the author
of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book 1894, Kim
1902 and Just So Stories 1902. He returned to India in 1882 to
become a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writing
supernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was the
first British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in
1907.
目錄:
THE CHAPTER LIST OFThe Jungle Book
Preface
Mowgli''s Brothers
Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack
Kaa''s Hunting
Road Song of the Bandar-Log
''Tiger.t Tiger.t''
Mowgli''s Song
The Wbhite Seal
Lukannon
''Rikki-Tikki-Tavi''
Darzee''s Chaunt
Toomai of the Elephants
Shiv and the Grasshopper
Her Majesty''s Servants
Parade Song Of the Camp Animals
THE CHAPTER LIST OF THE Second Fungle Book