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The stories are fable-like, with most of them centering on the lives of anthropomorphised jungle animals and a few focused on human characters in India. Kipling spent both his early years and his late teenage years in India, and that upbringing is front and center in these stories—despite them being written while he was living in Vermont, in the United States. The Jungle Book is a short collection of stories published by Kipling in various magazines between 18. Part of the Encyclopædia Britannica’s Gateway to the Great Books „– 48 in the Telegraph’s Greatest Villains in Literature Standard Ebooksĥ1,562 words (3 hours 8 minutes) with a reading ease of 78.18 (fairly easy) Leaving behind the only home he's ever known, Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery through the city, meeting 'creatures' along the way who don't always have his best interests at heart.ĭramatised by Ayeesha Menon, whose radio version of Midnight's Children won Best Adaptation at the 2018 Audio Drama Awards, this stunning audio retelling features Namit Das ( A Suitable Boy) as Mo, with Bollywood stars Rajit Kapur and Shernaz Patel as Tiger Khan and Mrs Gupta.The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling - Free ebook download - Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. But when the villainous politician Tiger Khan threatens his life, two residents of the block, the 'black panther' Bagheera and the 'bear' Baloo, offer to help him escape. In this radical radio reboot, Kipling's family classic is given a darker twist and reimagined in the concrete jungle of present-day India.īorn in a tenement block in Mumbai, orphan boy Mowgli is brought up by the Wolves, a gang of tough, streetwise petty criminals, and quickly learns how to survive in that world. Rudyard Kipling's timeless story re-imagined as a gangland coming-of-age fable