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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.
This edition of The Jungle Book includes a Biographical Note, Foreward, Preface, and Afterword by Jane Yolen.
Run with them. Or fear them--
Bagheera the Panther: A silken shadow of boldness and cunning.
Kaa the Python: A thirty foot battering ram driven by a cool, hungry mind.
Baloo the Bear: who keeps the lore and the Law, and teaches the Secret Words.
Rikki the Mongoose: The young protector who sings as he slays.
Akela and Raksha the Wolves: Demon warriors of the Free People.
Shere Khan the Tiger: The dreaded enemy of all.
And Mowgli the Man-cub: The orphan baby raised by the wolves, taught by Baloo, trained by Bagheera and Kaa. The sorcerer who knows the ways of the jungle and speaks the language of the wild...
Amazon.com
No child should be allowed to grow up without reading The Jungle Books. Published in 1894 and 1895, the stories crackle with as much life and intensity as ever. Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man-cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified. (Ages 9 to 12)
From Parents' Choice
A latter-day virtuoso of comic strip art is Craig Russell, and opening this graphic labor of love is like surrendering to a seductive and exotic magic show. Not since Winsor McCay in the early years of this century has their been so original and masterly a draftsman of the comic strip medium. Like McCay, the artist is able to manipulate the size and shape of each panel, giving the viewer the illusion of watching an animated film. The three Kipling Mowgli stories - about a boy brought up by wolves in the jungles of India are melodramatic and, on occasion, hard to follow; but the easy-to-read balloons of dialog - and, of course, the mesmerizing pictures are sure to hold a reading child in thrall. Eighty pages of graphic magic make this top-drawer comic strip well worth the price of admission. Recommended
Book Dimension
Height (mm) 172 Width (mm) 114
Born in Bombay, India, but raised in England from the age of five, Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is today best known as the author of such classics of literature as The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1902) and Just So Stories (1902). He returned to India in 1882 to become a journalist and local newspaper editor and began writing supernatural stories set in his native continent. Kipling was the first British writer to be award the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1907.
I had come across the author, Kipling, several times before I finally got to read this book. One of my favorite mottoes is from his poem 'If': don't talk too wise, nor look too good. Mrs. Thatcher also expresses her love of Kipling and The Jungle Book in h...
评分I had come across the author, Kipling, several times before I finally got to read this book. One of my favorite mottoes is from his poem 'If': don't talk too wise, nor look too good. Mrs. Thatcher also expresses her love of Kipling and The Jungle Book in h...
评分I had come across the author, Kipling, several times before I finally got to read this book. One of my favorite mottoes is from his poem 'If': don't talk too wise, nor look too good. Mrs. Thatcher also expresses her love of Kipling and The Jungle Book in h...
评分I had come across the author, Kipling, several times before I finally got to read this book. One of my favorite mottoes is from his poem 'If': don't talk too wise, nor look too good. Mrs. Thatcher also expresses her love of Kipling and The Jungle Book in h...
评分I had come across the author, Kipling, several times before I finally got to read this book. One of my favorite mottoes is from his poem 'If': don't talk too wise, nor look too good. Mrs. Thatcher also expresses her love of Kipling and The Jungle Book in h...
我必须承认,这本书的结构组织非常巧妙,它不是线性的叙事,而是通过一系列相对独立却又相互关联的事件串联起来,使得整体的叙事张力保持在一个很高的水平线上。每一次的危机解除,都伴随着主角心智上的一次飞跃。最令我拍案叫绝的是,作者对不同动物社群内部等级制度的刻画,那种森严的规则和隐晦的权力斗争,简直比人类历史还要精彩。阅读这些部分时,我总会联想到现实生活中的组织架构和人际关系,产生一种强烈的对照感和代入感。它教会了我,无论在哪个“丛林”里生存,了解规则、尊重力量、保持警惕都是至关重要的。这本书的语言风格自始至终都保持着一种古典而庄重的基调,即使是描绘最野蛮的行为,也处理得极具文学性,避开了低俗,提升到了寓言的高度。每一次重读,我都能发现一些之前忽略掉的细节,比如某个角色的潜台词或者环境氛围的暗示,这再次证明了它是一部值得收藏和细品的文学精品。
评分坦白说,初读时我有些担心这种经典名著会显得过于老套或晦涩难懂,但事实证明,我的担忧完全是多余的。这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其精妙,时而舒缓,充满了对自然环境的细致描摹,仿佛在为接下来的高潮做着精心的铺垫;时而又陡然紧张,情节推进之快,让人几乎要屏住呼吸。我尤其欣赏作者在塑造配角方面所花费的心思,那些性格迥异的动物角色,每一个都有其独特的魅力和不可替代的作用,他们之间的互动构成了故事最精彩的张力来源。不同于某些只关注主角成长的故事,这里的群像戏处理得尤为出色,每一个“配角”似乎都在讲述着自己的史诗。而且,这本书的语言风格非常具有韵律感,即使是那些描述残酷生存竞争的片段,读起来也有一种奇异的美感,就像一首宏大而略带忧伤的交响乐。它不仅满足了我对刺激冒险的渴望,更提供了一个全新的视角去审视“文明”的定义。看完后,我花了好几天时间回味那些关于领地、荣誉和责任的讨论,深感这本书的耐读性极高,值得反复品味。
评分这部作品的魅力,很大程度上源于其对“异乡人”处境的深刻洞察。想象一下,一个完全不属于那个世界的主角,如何凭借着智慧和勇气,一步步赢得尊重,最终找到归属感。这种挣扎与适应的过程,无疑触动了每一个曾经感到格格不入的读者的心弦。作者没有美化这种融入的过程,反而直白地展示了其中的危险、误解与牺牲。我特别关注了主人公学习生存技能的那些章节,那些关于追踪、伪装、分辨草药的知识,描述得极其详尽且具有说服力,让人感觉这不仅仅是虚构,而是基于对自然界长期观察的真实记录。这些知识的融入,极大地增强了故事的可信度和厚重感。此外,书中蕴含的道德困境也引人深思:当传统与新的法则发生冲突时,个体该如何抉择?书中给出的解答,充满了理想主义的光辉,但也带着一丝对“纯真”逝去的哀叹,这种复杂的情绪交织,使得故事的余味悠长,久久不能散去。
评分如果用一个词来形容这次阅读体验,那一定是“震撼”。这种震撼并非来自于声光电的刺激,而是源于对生命本质的重新认识。书中关于“法律”和“自由”的辩论,是我认为全书最精髓的部分。究竟是无拘无束的野性更接近“真理”,还是被规则约束的秩序更有价值?作者没有给出简单的答案,而是将这个难题抛给了读者,让我们在主角的选择中寻找自己的立场。我尤其欣赏书中关于“成长代价”的描绘,每一次看似成功的适应,背后都意味着对过去生活方式的某种告别,这种略带悲剧色彩的成熟过程,处理得极其细腻动人。这本书的文字充满了张力,仿佛能听到风声、水流声和远处的狩猎号角,画面感极强,让人沉浸其中,几乎忘记了自己身处何地。它成功地架起了一座桥梁,连接了我们现代人的感知世界与远古的自然法则,是一部真正意义上的精神洗礼之作。
评分这本书的阅读体验简直是一场令人心潮澎湃的丛林探险,我仿佛真的跟着主角一起穿梭在茂密的植被间,感受着野兽的呼吸和古老树木的低语。作者的文字功力深厚,寥寥数语就能勾勒出栩栩如生的画面感,无论是阳光穿过树冠洒下的斑驳光影,还是夜幕降临时万籁俱寂的压迫感,都拿捏得恰到好处。最让我着迷的是对人与自然关系的探讨,那些关于生存法则、社群秩序的描绘,远比教科书上的理论生动深刻。它不仅仅是一个简单的冒险故事,更像是一部充满了智慧和哲理的寓言,让人在阅读过程中不断反思自己在人类社会中的位置和行为模式。我特别喜欢其中几段关于动物间复杂情感的描写,那种未经雕琢的原始情感——忠诚、嫉妒、勇敢与恐惧,被刻画得淋漓尽致,让人为之动容。读完合上书的那一刻,空气中似乎还残留着泥土和野花的芬芳,那种沉浸式的代入感,是近年来我接触到的书籍中极为罕见的。它成功地将一个遥远而神秘的世界拉到了我的眼前,让我对那些未知的生命形态产生了深深的敬畏。
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