THE JUNGLE BOOK FOLLOWED BY THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK (ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN LOCKWOOD KIPLING)

The present edtion contains “The Jungle Book” followed by “The Second Jungle Book” from the first editions, illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling (the author's father). "The Jungle Book" (First published in 1894) and The Second Jungle Book (First published in 1895) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. A principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.