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Phenomenal recording and brilliant reading. I searched through dozens of audios of The Jungle Book and this is now my definitive version. Patrick Tull did an incredible job, with perfect inflections and masterful interpretations of the text, both poetry and prose, and never saddled each character with its own "voice" (other than as delineated already by Kipling's dialog) like so many others did (too many readers were howling, growling, hissing, etc when reading for the various animals. Some listeners might enjoy this but to me it is distracting and I am thankful Tull did not.)
I docked one star for one reason: although this title claims to be unabridged, and is indeed the closest one to unabridged I have been able to find, I did notice one instance where last several paragraphs of The King's Ankus are missing. The story ends in a logical place, but rather abruptly, and it made me wonder if there might be text missing in other stories that I simply did not know well enough to notice. It was extremely annoying, in an otherwise perfect reading and in a product advertised as unabridged, to have such a large portion edited out.
In entirety, though, the exceptional quality of this recording makes the omission forgiveable. This set will go down in my family favorites permanently. Even my young kids love it, justifying my belief that it is not necessary to water down classic literature to appeal to youngsters. Skip the "storyteller's" version of The Jungle Book and spring for the real thing. Kipling's language should be enjoyed as intended.
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"The Jungle Book" is a collection of stories (or fables) and songs/poems by Rudyard Kipling, and was originally published in 1894. The book consists of 7 short stories, separated by seven poems. The first three stories involve Mowgli, but the other four stories are not part of that series, nor do they all take place in the same jungle or any jungle at all. What these stories do have in common is the anthropomorphizing of animals as characters in these stories. As with all fables, these stories impart a moral message to the reader.
"Mowgli's Brothers" is the first story in the book and was originally published in January of 1894 in "St. Nicholas Magazine". The story is about Mowgli being adopted by the wolf family which then raises him. With Shere Khan hunting in their area of the jungle, the Father Wolf (Akela) and the mother (Raksha) find and take in a human baby. At the wolf council, Baloo speaks for the cub, and Bagheera buys his life with a fresh kill. As time passes, Shere Khan turns most of the wolves against Mowgli, and they plot to overthrow Akela as the leader. Mowgli is then sent away from the wolves, vowing to return with Shere Khan's hide. This story is followed by the "Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack".
"Kaa's Hunting" is a short study from March-April of 1894. It takes place sometime during the period covered in "Mowgli's Brothers", though it isn't mentioned in that story. It is a story about Mowgli's abduction by monkees, a.k.a the Bandar-log. Baloo and Bagheera, rescue Mowgli with the aid of Kaa. This story is followed by the "Road Song of the Bandar-Log".
"Tiger! Tiger!" was a short story published in February of 1894 in magazines before being published in this collection. This covers the confrontation between Mowgli and Shere Khan.Read more ›
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I hate to complain about a classic novel, but seriously we are GLAD to be finished with this book. It is part of our curriculum for Home School, so we were determined to see it to the end, but it seemed to take forever. Some chapters were tolerable, but some were brutal. Violence, cruelty, and Jungle Law prevailed throughout. I can check this one off my list, but do not plan on picking it back up again in the future.
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If you were to ask anyone to describe "The Jungle Book", they would probably take their cue from the widely known Disney film, and say that it was about a young boy who was raised by wolves in the jungle, mentored by a bear and a panther, and who eventually kills a dangerous tiger. In this they'd be right, but they'd only be describing the first three chapters.
The rest of the book is a series of unrelated short-stories about other animals, and which are not necessarily set in the jungle either. I was surprised at this, as although I knew that Disney had extensively reshaped the story, I had no idea that Mowgli's story was such a comparatively small part of the book. To my knowledge, Rudyard Kipling's characters have also featured in an anime series and a live-action film, and in both cases there has been no indication that the source material involved anything other than a boy called Mowgli and his adventures growing up in the jungle.
Though I had known that Disney had extensively reworked Kipling's book (as Disney is always accustomed to do with its film adaptations) it was surprising to find out the real scope and beauty of the original collection of stories, and just how deeply the film had permeated public awareness of what the story involved.Read more ›
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