Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling

Born 1865 in India, Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short story writer, poet and novelist. His childhood in India provided inspiration for much of his writing.At the age of five, Kipling was sent from India to England to be educated. He boarded with a couple in Portsmouth, where he was treated with cruelty and neglect. At the age of sixteen, Kipling returned to India, where he felt much more at home. There, he spent the next seven years working for English newspapers, and in 1886 he published his first collection of verse. Upon leaving his role at the newspaper in 1889, he sold the rights to six volumes of short stories and used the money to return to London, travelling through Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and the United States on the way.Kipling continued to travel extensively throughout his life, publishing his most famous works The Jungle Book in 1894, and Kim in 1901. 1n 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first English language writer to do so and the youngest recipient to date.Kipling died in England in 1936, and his ashes are interred at Poet’s Corner.

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The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book audiobook front cover.
The Jungle Book audiobook

Kipling's tales of Mowgli and his wild life in the Indian jungle have been loved by children's and adults alike, ever since their publication in 1895.

Adopted by a wolf pack, young Mowgli the Man Cub must learn the Laws of the Jungle if he is to escape the jaws of evil tiger Shere Khan. Luckily he always has his friends Baloo the Bear, Bagheera the panther and Kaa the python to call on.

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The Jungle Book audiobook front cover.
The Jungle Book
This image shows the front covers of three audiobooks. In the front is Peter Pan, and behind it are The Jungle Book and Pinocchio.
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