Kipling's stories of Mowgli — the child raised by wolves in the Indian jungle — and of the creatures who school, shelter and hunt him, among them Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, Kaa the python and the tiger Shere Khan, are among the most widely read animal tales in English. They are stories about law, belonging and the uneasy line between the village and the forest, told in a voice that moves easily between fable and adventure.
This English edition is issued by M. D. Gunasena & Co. of Colombo, within its Timeless Classics series — a line through which the publisher brings well-known works of fiction to readers in Sri Lanka in a straightforward, affordable form.
It suits a reader meeting Kipling for the first time as much as one returning to the book after many years, and it reads well aloud. Buyers outside Sri Lanka may find it of interest as an example of how a long-established Sri Lankan house presents English literature for its own readership.
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789552132070
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