The Jungle Book

This edition contains the complete text of the most famous work by the great English writer—prose writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (1907), Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936).

The law of the jungle is cruel: the weak are only prey for the strong.

That’s what the tiger Shere Khan and the jackal Tabaqui think. The law of the jungle is just; its foundation is: “you and I are of one blood; you and I.” That is what the she-wolf Raksha, the pack leader Akela, the panther Bagheera, the teacher bear Baloo believe… It was they who rescued and raised the human cub Mowgli. They told him about the red flower and the iron tooth, about who human beings are, and about how to defeat evil. Mowgli’s first tears awakened his soul, and “the wolf of the free tribe” became a man!

Living among the forest’s inhabitants, “the little frog-Mowgli” searches for the answer to the question: “Who am I?” A clash with a tiger, an abduction by monkeys, a spell cast by snakes—many unbelievable events await Mowgli before he returns to people…