This 1894 reprint edition will be a family heirloom for generations to come. In fact, this original edition also includes illustrations that were drawn by Rudyard Kipling's own father.

While many know Mowgli and Baloo and other beloved favorites from the movies, many parents will enjoy presenting the original tale to their children almost exactly the way young people enjoyed it from the beginning. It includes the original illustrations which introduced the imagination of Kipling to a generation of readers. This is the original 1894 edition that started it all. A story of a boy who raised by Indian wolves becomes lord of the jungle.Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book' is a childhood classic that has seen many adaptations since it was first published. LibriVox recording of The Jungle Book (Version 3) by Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book, Read by LibriVox Volunteers LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. LibriVox recording of THE JUNGLE BOOK, by Rudyard Kipling. This classic children's book by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Mowgli, a young boy raised by wolves. Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text. Summary and recording by Meredith Hughes. Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University. Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.īy Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936. Plain Text.īy Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. It is based on the story 'Toomai of the Elephants' from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894). Holloway as Father, and Walter Hudd as Petersen. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda, the film stars Sabu as Toomai, W. It is directed by Zoltan Korda and stars Sabu as Mowgli, Joseph Calleia as Buldeo and John Qualen as the barber.ĭirected by Robert J. This is a film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's novel The Jungle Book. The book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010. There is evidence that it was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, after a rare first edition of After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling.

The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling.

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