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Author:
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.
Title:
The jungle books / Rudyard Kipling ; with a new introduction by Alberto Manguel and an afterword by Alev Lytle Croutier.
Publisher:
Signet Classics
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
xv, 362 p. ; 18 cm.
Subject:
Mowgli--(Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Adventure stories, English.
Jungle animals--Fiction.
India--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Manguel, Alberto.
Croutier, Alev Lytle.
Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress).
Notes:
All fifteen stories in The jungle books had their original publication in magazines. Macmillan and Company, London and New York, published the first edition of The jungle book in 1894 ; the first edition of The second jungle book followed in 1895. This Signet Classic is reprinted from these first editions -- page 362. Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-361).
Contents:
Book 1. Mowgli's brothers -- Kaa's hunting -- "Tiger-Tiger!" -- The white seal -- "Rikki-tikki-tavi" -- Toomai of the elephants -- Servants of the Queen -- Book 2. How fear came -- The miracle of Purun Bhagat -- Letting in the jungle -- The undertakers -- The King's ankus -- Quiquern -- Red Dog -- The spring running.
ISBN:
0451419189 (paperback)
9780451419187 (paperback)
LCCN:
2014659304
Locations:
YGPC162 -- West Branch Public Library (West Branch)

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