The Jungle Book; The Second Jungle Book; Just So Stories; Puck Of Pooks Hill; Stalky & Co.; Kim
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few authors have captured the raw wonder of empire, nature, and boyhood quite like Rudyard Kipling, and this handsome omnibus — presented complete and unabridged — gathers six of his most celebrated works into a single indispensable volume. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book chronicle the iconic adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, alongside timeless tales of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Rikki's fearless companions. Just So Stories presents Kipling's wonderfully inventive fables for children, while Puck of Pooks Hill conjures the mythic history of England through the eyes of two young siblings guided by the spirit of Puck himself. Rounding out this remarkable collection, Stalky & Co. details the anarchic schoolboy pranks that defined a generation of British soldiers-in-waiting, and Kim — widely regarded as Kipling's masterpiece — immerses the reader in the teeming, treacherous world of the Great Game across colonial India. Together, these six works illustrate the astonishing breadth of Kipling's literary genius: his ability to move seamlessly between roaring adventure, delicate myth-making, and incisive social observation. A Nobel Prize laureate whose prose pulses with vivid imagery and an unmatched ear for dialect and voice, Kipling argues — through every page of this collection — that the boundary between civilization and wilderness, between boy and man, is far thinner than we dare imagine. Whether you are returning to these stories after a lifetime or encountering them for the first time, this omnibus promises to leave you questioning which world — Mowgli's jungle or Kim's bazaar — you would most wish to inhabit.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Format: Hardback
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few authors have captured the raw wonder of empire, nature, and boyhood quite like Rudyard Kipling, and this handsome omnibus — presented complete and unabridged — gathers six of his most celebrated works into a single indispensable volume. The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book chronicle the iconic adventures of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, alongside timeless tales of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Rikki's fearless companions. Just So Stories presents Kipling's wonderfully inventive fables for children, while Puck of Pooks Hill conjures the mythic history of England through the eyes of two young siblings guided by the spirit of Puck himself. Rounding out this remarkable collection, Stalky & Co. details the anarchic schoolboy pranks that defined a generation of British soldiers-in-waiting, and Kim — widely regarded as Kipling's masterpiece — immerses the reader in the teeming, treacherous world of the Great Game across colonial India. Together, these six works illustrate the astonishing breadth of Kipling's literary genius: his ability to move seamlessly between roaring adventure, delicate myth-making, and incisive social observation. A Nobel Prize laureate whose prose pulses with vivid imagery and an unmatched ear for dialect and voice, Kipling argues — through every page of this collection — that the boundary between civilization and wilderness, between boy and man, is far thinner than we dare imagine. Whether you are returning to these stories after a lifetime or encountering them for the first time, this omnibus promises to leave you questioning which world — Mowgli's jungle or Kim's bazaar — you would most wish to inhabit.