The Second Jungle Book (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Tapa blanda

The Second Jungle Book is a sequel to The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in Vermont. All of the stories were previously published in magazines in 189405, often under different title. The original books is now worth $3.4 million. Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling s stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods Of The Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man s Burden (18999), and If (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children s books are classics of children s literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting a versatile and luminous narrative gift . 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. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.