The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
16 chapters · ~51,300 words · Moderate · Downloaded 39,072 times on Gutenberg in the last 30 days · Source
"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories published in 1894. The tales follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, alongside animal characters like Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. Through these fables, Kipling explores themes of abandonment and fostering, law and freedom, and the balance between civilization and wildness. The stories teach lessons about respect for authority while celebrating the freedom to move between different worlds, using animals as archetypes for human nature and society. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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- 1THE JUNGLE BOOK954 chars
- 2Contents311 chars
- 3Mowgli’s Brothers38,741 chars
- 4Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack692 chars
- 5Kaa’s Hunting48,592 chars
- 6Road-Song of the Bandar-Log1,170 chars
- 7“Tiger! Tiger!”34,028 chars
- 8Mowgli’s Song2,996 chars
- 9The White Seal38,144 chars
- 10Lukannon1,555 chars
- 11“Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”31,477 chars
- 12Darzee’s Chant943 chars
- 13Toomai of the Elephants39,453 chars
- 14Shiv and the Grasshopper1,673 chars
- 15Her Majesty’s Servants31,062 chars
- 16Parade Song of the Camp Animals2,408 chars