spiritualism (communication with spirits).
Rudyard Kipling
(1865-1936)
Rudyard Kipling was bom in Bombay, India, on December
30,1865, in the family of John Lockwood Kipling, a professor of
architectural sculpture. At the age o f six he was taken to England
and educated at an English College in North Devon. In 1883 he
returned to India and became sub-editor o f the Lahore Civil and
Military Gazette. At the age of 21 he published his first volume,
a small book of verse “Departmental Ditties”. A year later his
“Plain Tails from the Hills” introduced him to the public as a story
teller. Before he was twenty-four he had already published six small
collections of stories, which showed his remarkable talent.
From 1887 to 1899 Kipling traveled around the world and vis
ited China, Japan and America. During this period he wrote his
most popular works: “The Jungle Book” (1894-1895), “Captain
Courageous” (1897), “Kim” (1902), “Just so Stories”(1902),
“Puck of Pook’s Hill” (1906) and “Rewards and Fairies”( 1910).
The best and most beloved of Kipling’s prose works is “The
Jungle Book”. !t was intended for children. In it Kipling depicted
the life of wild animals, showed their character and behavior. Each
chapter of this book began with a poem and ended with a song.
The main character of this work Mowgli is the child of an
Indian wood-cutter. He gets lost in the jungle and creeps into a
lair o f a wolf. The mother wolf lets him feed together with her
cubs and calls him Mowgli which means frog. Mow'gli has many
adventures and finally returns to the society of men.
“The Jungle Bookv shows that man is a curious animal. He is
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