''All the Mowgli Stories'' is a collection of

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. As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about

Mowgli Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book'' stories. He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (co ...

from ''

The Jungle Book ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, ...

'' and ''

The Second Jungle Book ''The Second Jungle Book'' is a sequel to ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in V ...

'', together with " In the Rukh" (the first Mowgli story written, although the last in chronological order). The book also includes the epigrammatic poems added to the stories for their original book publication. All of the stories and poems had originally been published between 1893 and 1895. The book was first published under this title in 1933 by

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, containing colour plates and pen illustrations by

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. Its contents are virtually identical to ''The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VII: The Jungle Book'', part of a multi-volume set which had appeared in 1907. (A companion volume, ''The Works of Rudyard Kipling Volume VIII: The Jungle Book'' collects all of the non-Mowgli stories from the two ''Jungle Books''.)

Short stories

Mowgli's Brothers "Mowgli's Brothers" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. Chronologically it is the first story about Mowgli although it was written after " In the Rukh" in which Mowgli appears as an adult. The story first appeared in the January 1894 issue of ' ...

Kaa's Hunting "Kaa's Hunting" is an 1893 short story by Rudyard Kipling featuring Mowgli. Chronologically the story falls between the first and second halves of Mowgli's Brothers, and is the second story in ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) where it is accompanied b ...

#How Fear Came - During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken

Wainganga River The Wainganga is a river in India originating in the Mahadeo Hills in Mundara near the village Gopalganj in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. It is a key tributary of the Godavari. The river flows south in a winding course through the states of Madhya Prade ...

for a Water Truce where the display of the blue-coloured Peace Rock prevents anyone from hunting at its riverbanks. After

Shere Khan Shere Khan (Hindi- शेर खान/ English pronunciation) is a fictional Bengal tiger and the main antagonist of Rudyard Kipling's ''The Jungle Book, Jungle Book'' and its adaptations. According to The Kipling Society, the word ''shere'' ...

was driven away by him for nearly defiling the Peace Rock,

Hathi Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) and ''The Second Jungle Book'' (1895). Hathi is a bull elephant that lives in the jungle. Kipling named him after ''hāthī' ...

the

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tells Mowgli the story of how the first tiger got his stripes when fear first came to the jungle. # Tiger! Tiger! #

Letting in the Jungle "Letting In the Jungle" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from "Mowgli's Brothers" and " Tiger! Tiger!". The story was written at Kipling's parents' home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli ...

#The King's Ankus - Mowgli discovers a jewelled object beneath the Cold Lairs that he later discards carelessly, not realising that men will kill each other to possess it. Mowgli later returns the treasure to its hiding-place to prevent further killings. # Red Dog #

The Spring Running ''The Second Jungle Book'' is a sequel to ''The Jungle Book'' by Rudyard Kipling. First published in 1895, it features five stories about Mowgli and three unrelated stories, all but one set in India, most of which Kipling wrote while living in ...

- Mowgli, now almost 17 years old, is growing restless for reasons he cannot understand. On an aimless run through the jungle he stumbles across the village where his adopted mother Messua is now living with her 2-year-old son, and is torn between staying with her and returning to the jungle. #In the Rukh

Poems

#Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack #Road-Song of the Bandar-Log (poem) #The Law of the Jungle (poem) #Mowgli's Song (that he sang at the Council Rock when he danced on Shere Khan's hide) #Mowgli's Song Against People (poem) #The Out-Song (poem)

References

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Short story collections by Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book 1933 short story collections British children's books Children's short story collections Doubleday, Doran books 1933 children's books Wolves in literature Dogs in literature {{1930s-story-collection-stub

Contents

Short stories

Poems

References

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