The Jungle Book & Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (2 vols)

S$64.00

The Jungle Book & Second Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (2 vols)

S$64.00

Title: The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (2 vols)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Publisher: The Jungle Book published 1911 by F. A. Brockhaus, 1911. The Second Jungle Book published in 1897 by Bernhard Tauchnitz. Both are uniform editions.

Condition: Hardcover, very good. Pocket size.  Very slight wear to covers. Inscriptions to both vols. Slight damage to hinge on cover page of vol 1, not affecting binding. Patterned edges to Second Jungle Book.

About the book (from Wikipedia):

The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or “heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle.” Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned “man cub” Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”, the story of a heroic mongoose, and “Toomai of the Elephants”, the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling’s work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another.