『ジャングルブック』は英国の作家・詩人ラドヤード・キップリングが1894年に出版した短編小説集。翌1895年には続編が出版された。 7つの短編からなり、ベーリング海のアザラシを取り上げた第4話を除き、いずれも熱帯のジャングルに棲む動物達を主人公とした物語で、作者のインド生活から取材したものである。 …
How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? Who invented reading and writing? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables he heard as a child in India, as well as on folk games with …
Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, a sahib, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of Imperialism, he is also …