The jungle book Contributor(s): Kipling (Author) |
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ISBN: 1500651362 ISBN-13: 9781500651367 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $27.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Lexile Measure: 520 |
Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.43 lbs) 140 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893-94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. 1] There is evidence that it was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, |