The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling plays and year after year he

and year after year he returns from the provincial still married

and fiercely alive

doesn't go quite as planned

the Observer

Naipaul remembers

The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling plays and year after year heThe Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling's philosophy of life is expressed in miniature. They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories; the tale of a baby abandoned and brought up by wolves, educated in the ways and secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python, Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black panther. The stories, a mixture