Rudyard Kipling

"Les b tisseurs de ponts" de Rudyard Kipling. Ecrivain britannique (1865-1936).

El libro de la selva (en ingl s: The Jungle Book), tambi n llamado El libro de las tierras v rgenes, publicado en 1894, es una colecci n de historias escritas por el ingl s nacido en India Rudyard Kipling (Bombay, 1865 - Londres, 1936), el primer escritor brit nico en ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1907. La historia, que fue inicialmente publicada en revistas entre 1893-1894 y que contaba en algunos casos con ilustraciones del padre de Rudyard, John Lockwood Kipling, se basa en cuentos de animales de la selva india que, de forma antropom rfica, plantean lecciones morales.

Raised by a pack of wolves, the little boy known as Mowgli forms the human heart of an animal community in the Indian wilderness. These selections from The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, and Many Inventions offer a chronological presentation of every episode from Rudyard Kipling's beloved tales of a feral child. This edition of the stories, all except one of which were originally published in magazines in 1893 and 1894, includes the charming epigrammatic poems that appeared in the first compilations. The adventures begin with "Mowgli's Brothers," in which the orphan is rescued from the wrath of Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger. Upon his adoption into the wolf pack, Mowgli is schooled in the Law of the Jungle by Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther. Eight additional tales trace the boy's growing knowledge of jungle lore as well as his moral development and return to human society. Kipling's powerfully original fables, recounted in richly evocative prose, continue to enchant readers of all ages.

This new collection includes such impressive classics as "The Gods of the Copybook Headings," "The City of Brass," "Recessional," "Jubal and Tubal Cain," "When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted," "If," and many, many more. With prophetic vision, Rudyard Kipling's timeless verse speaks clearly to our own times. He was a keen observer of human nature--and of his times--which were much like our times: government leaders who were inept or corrupt or both, foreign conflicts that never seemed to end (or simply cropped up in other places), a populace who had largely forgotten God, and a general confusion about what was right and what was wrong." Kipling was something rarer than a philosopher; he was a prophet," wrote T. S. Eliot. "He had a gift for prophecy." Kipling's warning voice sounds a clarion call to the troubled and stumbling world of the 21st century.