The Jungle Book introduces Mowgli, the human foundling adoptedby a family of wolves. It tells of the enmity between him and thetiger Shere Khan, who killed Mowgli's parents, and of thefriendship between the man-cub and Bagheera, the black panther, andBaloo, the sleepy brown bear, who instructs Mowgli in the Laws ofthe Jungle. The Second Jungle Book contains some of the mostthrilling of the Mowgli stories. It includes Red Dog, in whichMowgli forms an unlikely alliance with the python Kaa, How FearCame and Letting in the Jungle as well as The Spring Running, whichbrings Mowgli to manhood and the realisation that he must leaveBagheera, Baloo and his other friends for the world of man.
【作者简介】
Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age offive, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the authorof such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim(1902) and Just So Stories (1902). He returned to India in 1882 tobecome a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writingsupernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was thefirst British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in1907.
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