Rudyard Kipling

Broschiertes Buch

The Jungle Book

Beschreibung

No man's cub can run with the people of the Jungle,' howled Shere Khan. 'Give him to me!When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf find a man-cub in the jungle, they anger the greedy tiger Shere Khan by refusing to surrender it to his jaws, and rear the child as their own.

Autor

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in India in1865 to British parents, and brought by a Portuguese 'ayah' (nanny) and an Indian servant, who would entertain him with fabulous stories and Indian nursery rhymes. He was sent back to England when he was seven years old, and lived in a boarding house with a couple who were cruelly strict. Fortunately he returned to India aged 16, to work as the assistant editor of a newspaper in Lahore. He began publishing stories and poems and eventually had great success with his book Plain Tales from the Hills. After his marriage Kipling settled in America, and it was here that he wrote The Jungle Book. He then moved with his family to England, where he wrote Just So Stories for his daughter Josephine who tragically died of pneumonia. Rudyard Kipling was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 and died on 18 January 1936.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 178g
• ISBN-13: 9780099573029
• ISBN-10: 0099573024
• Artikelnr.: 35509586