The Jungle Book by Kipling Rudyard
Jim's life was pretty ordinary-until the day a dying pirate left him with a treasure map. Now he's thrust into a world of high-seas adventure and intrigue, with a gruff captain and a naive aristocrat on one side, and a mutinous crew of undercover pirates on the other, led by the slippery Long John Silver. Directors will want all hands on deck for this faithful adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, as it is packed with great roles of all sizes.
Kipling, who as a novelist dramatized the ambivalence of the British colonial experience, was born of English parents in Bombay and as a child knew Hindustani better than English. He spent an unhappy period of exile from his parents (and the Indian heat) with a harsh aunt in England, followed by the public schooling that inspired his Stalky stories. He returned to India at 18 to work on the staff of the Lahore Civil and Military Gazette and rapidly became a prolific writer. His mildly satirical work won him a reputation in England, and he returned there in 1889. Shortly after, his first novel, The Light That Failed (1890) was published, but it was not altogether successful. In the early 1890s, Kipling met and married Caroline Balestier and moved with her to her family's estate in Brattleboro, Vermont. While there he wrote Many Inventions (1893), The Jungle Book (1894-95), and Captains Courageous (1897). He became dissatisfied with life in America, however, and moved back to England, returning to America only when his daughter died of pneumonia. Kipling never again returned to the United States, despite his great popularity there. Short stories form the greater portion of Kipling's work and are of several distinct types. Some of his best are stories of the supernatural, the eerie and unearthly, such as The Phantom Rickshaw, The Brushwood Boy, and They. His tales of gruesome horror include The Mark of the Beast and The Return of Imray. William the Conqueror and The Head of the District are among his political tales of English rule in India. The Soldiers Three group deals with Kipling's three musketeers: an Irishman, a Cockney, and a Yorkshireman. The Anglo-Indian Tales, of social life in Simla, make up the larger part of his first four books. Kipling wrote equally well for children and adults. His best-known children's books are Just So Stories (1902), The Jungle Books (1894-95), and Kim (1901). His short stories, although their understanding of the Indian is often moving, became minor hymns to the glory of Queen Victoria's empire and the civil servants and soldiers who staffed her outposts. Kim, an Irish boy in India who becomes the companion of a Tibetan lama, at length joins the British Secret Service, without, says Wilson, any sense of the betrayal of his friend this actually meant. Nevertheless, Kipling has left a vivid panorama of the India of his day. In 1907, Kipling became England's first Nobel Prize winner in literature and the only nineteenth-century English poet to win the Prize. He won not only on the basis of his short stories, which more closely mirror the ambiguities of the declining Edwardian world than has commonly been recognized, but also on the basis of his tremendous ability as a popular poet. His reputation was first made with Barrack Room Ballads (1892), and in Recessional he captured a side of Queen Victoria's final jubilee that no one else dared to address.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783903352681 |
| ISBN 10 | 3903352683 |
| Title | The Jungle Book |
| Author | Kipling Rudyard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pretorian Books |
| Year published | 2020-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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