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The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

Father Wolf wakes as a human baby wanders into the wolves’ cave.

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Original language: EnglishLevel: Intermediate3,398 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips. Mother Wolf lay with her big gray nose dropped across her four tumbling, squealing cubs, and the moon shone into the mouth of the cave where they all lived. “Augrh!” said Father Wolf. “It is time to hunt again.” He was going to spring down hill when a little shadow with a bushy tail crossed the threshold and whined: “Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in…

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About the book

The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling, whose principal character is Mowgli, a boy raised in the jungle by wolves. Set largely in an Indian forest, the stories explore themes of abandonment and fostering, and of law and freedom, portraying human archetypes in animal form. The book has remained popular through many adaptations, and critics have admired the power of Kipling's storytelling.

About the author

Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer, born in British India, which inspired much of his work. His representative works include the Jungle Book duology, Kim, the Just So Stories and the poem "If—", and in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming its first English-language recipient and, at 41, its youngest to date.

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