The Jungle Books (Oxford World's Classics)

Good quality

The human condition, laid bare in these beautiful and touching stories.I'm glad I came to this as an adult, rather than as a child. I found many of the stories deeply moving, others very funny and others very challenging. Kipling so beautifully understood man, and in the crucible of colonial India his observations come fantastically to life. This is a book for anyone of any age. Full of lessons, love, humour, sadness, sense.

The classic jungle book, a great read and a fantastic edition! Loved the presentation and feel of this book, worth the read!

I thought it would have accompanying pictures as I want to read aloud to young children BUT a great selection of Rudyard Kipling stories. Will certainly keep!

Classic

I have read (and loved) Kipling since I was very young. And now, in my dotage, I decided it was long past the time to share him and his works with my grandchildren. Maybe they will also want a mongoose for a pet after reading about the magnificent battles of Rikki-Tikki-Tava, something neither the law nor my mother would abide in those distant days of my past. Or find solace in some of this poems as life speeds past as I have for more decades than I now care to admit. Kipling was not, by our lights, politically correct, but he was a man of his age, and he wrote from the heart with wit and care and I suggest that he still has much to offer in terms of life's truths, such as we can understand them, that he was and remains a preeminent 'teller of tales,' and that those tales are worthy of being shared with those we love. Oh Mowgli, man-cub, may the jungles protect thee and thine,

great

als sich von der Disneykitschfabrik verblöden lassen. Kipling hat hier ein Meisterwerk geschaffen, das wenig mit den Disneyklischees zu tun hat.

I hadn't read this book since i was pre-teen. (i am over 70 now). it is well nuanced and a pleasant surprise reading through adult eyes.