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dc.contributor.authorKipling, Rudyard
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-02T22:23:50Z
dc.date.available2015-04-02T22:23:50Z
dc.date.issued2003
dc.identifier.citationLondon: An Electronic Classics Series Publication, 2003en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/484
dc.description.abstractThe tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. "How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a 'water truce', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his stripes. "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat": An influential Indian politician abandons his worldly goods to become an ascetic holy man. Later he must save a village from a landslide with the help of the local animals whom he has befriended. "Letting in the Jungle": Mowgli has been driven out of the human village for witchcraft, and the superstitious villagers are preparing to kill his adopted parents Messua and her (unnamed) husband. Mowgli rescues them and then prepares to take revenge. "The Undertakers": A mugger crocodile, a jackal and an adjutant stork (erroneously referred to as a crane in the story), three of the most unpleasant characters on the river, spend an afternoon bickering with each other until some Englishmen arrive to settle some unfinished business with the crocodile. "The King's Ankus": Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs which he later discards carelessly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it..en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAn Electronic Classics Series Publicationen_US
dc.subjectJungles -- Fictionen_US
dc.subjectAnimals -- Fictionen_US
dc.subjectShort storiesen_US
dc.subjectEnglish fictionen_US
dc.titleThe Second Jungle Booken_US
dc.typeBooken_US


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