Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) Tiger! Tiger! (Kipling short story) "Tiger! Tiger!" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. A direct sequel to "Mowgli's Brothers", it was published in magazines in 1893–94 before appearing as the third story in "The Jungle Book" (1894), following "Kaa's Hunting". The title is derived from William Blake's poem "The Tyger". After driving out the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli leaves the wolf pack that has raised him and makes his way to a human village to be with his own (biological) kind. There he is adopted by a bereaved couple, Messua and her husband, due to his resemblance to their
Tarzan of the Apes in "The All-Story" in October 1912. "The All-Story" published it in its entirety in installments, and it was published in 1914 as a novel. Though "The Jungle Book" is sometimes cited as an influence on Burroughs’ "Tarzan of the Apes", he claimed that his only inspiration was the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus. Rudyard Kipling commented that Burroughs "had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books and, I imagine, thoroughly enjoyed himself." Recent literary criticism often focuses on the identity of the eponymous protagonist of "Tarzan of the Apes." Literary scholars, such as Jeff Berglund, Mikko Tuhkanen, J. Michelle