The Jungle Book

by Rudyard Kipling

Read free now

Read it here, or listen to it read aloud.

AdventureChildrenFictionHistoryShort Stories

"The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling is a collection of stories published in 1894. The tales follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, alongside animal characters like Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear. Through these fables, Kipling explores themes of abandonment and fostering, law and freedom, and the balance between civilization and wildness.

Summary from Project Gutenberg.

9,404 readers on Project Gutenberg

More Adventure classics

Cover of The three musketeersThe three musketeersDumas, Alexandre, Maquet, AugusteCover of The call of the wildThe call of the wildJack LondonCover of Around the World in Eighty DaysAround the World in Eighty DaysJules VerneCover of Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground JourneyBaron Trump's Marvellous Underground JourneyIngersoll LockwoodCover of White FangWhite FangJack LondonCover of A Journey to the Centre of the EarthA Journey to the Centre of the EarthJules Verne

Topics: Adventure stories, English · Animals -- Fiction · Feral children -- Fiction · India -- Fiction · India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction · Jungle animals -- Fiction