Rudyard Kipling

First published over a century ago, these three unabridged stories from Kipling's "The Jungle Book" are now illustrated in striking full color and exquisite detail by an award-winning artist.

Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner her is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book, is thrown into an entirely alien environment.

Kim tells the story of Kimball O’Hara, an orphaned Irish boy growing up in late nineteenth-century India, and his quest for identity as he strives to reconcile his Western inheritance with the Indian life he has always known. This edition sets the novel in the context of the historical period and addresses Kipling’s ambivalent relationship with India, the Empire’s treatment of the “other” classes and races who worked to maintain the British presence in India, and the place of Kim in Kipling’s career as a writer. Appendices include contemporary reviews of the novel and historical documents on Britain’s and Russia’s struggle for control of Asia, Indian colonization, and the writing of Kim.

Everyone knows Rudyard Kipling's animals are the ones most worthknowing anywhere. This collection--beautifully performed by Boris Karloff--includes Kipling's Just So Stories (where we meet the animals when the world was new--so new, in fact, that the Rhinoceros had not yet losthis buttons ) and stories from his timeless classic, The Jungle Book.