The Jungle Book

Written by Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by Simon Hester

To return to the Jungle Book in its literary form after encountering it in the popular culture of the last 50 years is to be bathed in the fresh, cold, bracing water of a jungle waterfall such as Mowgli himself would have enjoyed.

Head Stories audio presents this compelling telling of the classic Rudyard Kipling book which goes well beyong the confines of the Indian Jungle! SImon Hester narrates, with specially composed music.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Head Stories Audio
• Release date: Dec 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664975804

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English author and poet who began writing in India and shortly found his work celebrated in England. An extravagantly popular, but critically polarizing, figure even in his own lifetime, the author wrote several books for adults and children that have become classics, Kim, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Captains Courageous and others. Although taken to task by some critics for his frequently imperialistic stance, the author’s best work rises above his era’s politics. Kipling refused offers of both knighthood and the position of Poet Laureate, but was the first English author to receive the Nobel prize.