The Jungle Book (Unabridged)

By Rudyard KiplingNarrated by Edward Miller

Length5h 23m

About this audiobook

The Jungle Book is a wonderful collection of stories by world famous English author Rudyard Kipling. The original publications contain illustrations, some by the author's father, John Lockwood Kipling. The tales in the book are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of Mowgli, an abandoned "man cub" who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other four stories are probably Rikk i- Tikki - Tavi, the story of a heroic mongoose, and Toomai of the Elephants, the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is followed by a piece of verse. There is poignant evidence - a recent discovery of a hand written note in a rare first editiion of the book by the author to his young daughter that the collection of stories was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 at six years of age by pneumonia...

Audiobook details

GenreLiterary Classics

Length5 hrs 23 mins

Narrated byEdward Miller

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateDec 9, 2016

LanguageEnglish

1Chapter 1: The Jungle Book

7Chapter 7: The Jungle Book

2Chapter 2: The Jungle Book

8Chapter 8: The Jungle Book

3Chapter 3: The Jungle Book

9Chapter 9: The Jungle Book

4Chapter 4: The Jungle Book

10Chapter 10: The Jungle Book

5Chapter 5: The Jungle Book

11Chapter 11: The Jungle Book

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6Chapter 6: The Jungle Book

About the author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling wurde 1865 in Bombay geboren, wuchs in Indien auf und kehrte später noch einmal als Journalist nach Indien zurück. Zu seinen berühmtesten Werken gehören «Das Dschungelbuch» (1894/95) und «Kim» (1901). Seine bedeutende Lyrik hat u.a. Bertolt Brecht beeinflusst. 1907 erhielt Rudyard Kipling, der als geistiger Vertreter des britischen Imperiums gilt, den Literaturnobelpreis. Er starb 1936 in London.View all by Rudyard Kipling