The Jungle Book
By Rudyard Kipling
Cover: Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!) (1891), oil on canvas by Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died 1910)
The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a dry forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly is "Seeonee" (Seoni), in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.
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