Book description
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.
'There is no harm in a man's cub.'
Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book
expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling.
Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the
way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger
Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other
stories such as that of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, a heroic mongoose and Toomai,
a young elephant handler, Kipling's fables remain as popular today as
they ever were. Charles Dickens was born in 1812 and grew up in
poverty. This experience influenced 'Oliver Twist',' the second of his
fourteen major novels, which first appeared in 1837. When he died in
1870 he was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey as an
indication of his huge popularity as a novelist, which endures to this
day.
