All the Mowgli Stories Co., containing colour plates and pen illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. 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".) All the Mowgli Stories All the Mowgli Stories is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. As the title suggests, the book is a chronological compilation of the stories about Mowgli from "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle
Rudyard Kipling recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with." Rudyard Kipling was born on 30 December 1865 in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, to Alice Kipling (née MacDonald) and John Lockwood Kipling. Alice (one of the four noted MacDonald sisters) was a vivacious woman, about whom Lord Dufferin would say, "Dullness and Mrs Kipling cannot exist in the same room." Lockwood Kipling, a sculptor and pottery designer, was the Principal and Professor of Architectural Sculpture at