The Jungle Book Illustrated by Maurice & Edward J. Detmold

The Jungle Book Illustrated by Maurice & Edward J. Detmold

The Jungle Book Illustrated by Maurice & Edward J. Detmold

The Jungle Book Illustrated by Maurice & Edward J. Detmold

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Overview

Critics on The Jungle Book and Kipling:

"What difference does it make if he is an insufferable Tory? He wrote The Jungle Book. Has everybody forgotten that?" - Hilton Brown

"One of the most enjoyable books of my childhood and even in adulthood, highly informative as to the outlook of the British on their 'native population'." - Sayan Mukherjee

"The moralist is always present, even in those tales of The Jungle Book which are taken by many readers to be merely fantasies to amuse the very young. It may be the moralist in Kipling that is displeasing to those intellectuals who have belittled him in my time. He was well aware that the moral is unwelcome, and must be insinuated, or conveyed (as we say nowadays) subliminally." - T.S. Eliot

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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798765537671
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 03/04/2022
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

The Jungle Books were written in Vermont and initiate a phase of Kipling's career in which he can be considered as having become a writer for children. On a superficial view, one might regard this development as being the consequence of some failure of confidence in himself as a 'serious' author. He certainly did not so estimate the situation. Writing retrospectively in Something of Myself, he has more to say about the group of children's books than about any other. Indeed it is his main point that only in a limited sense ought they to be regarded as children's books at all. Most mature readers who like Kipling will be found to agree with him in this. And the books are most keenly appreciated by those read them first in childhood (or listened to them being read) and have then come back to them in later life. This is the road to finding those layers of significance which Kipling, in fact, claimed to have put into them.” – Professor J. I. M. Stewart
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