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
The Jungle Book and class are mapped out in the stories, contributing to "an imagining of Englishness as a site of power and racial superiority." Nyman suggested that "The Jungle Book"'s monkeys and snakes represent "colonial animals" and "racialized Others" within the Indian jungle, whereas the White Seal promotes "'truly English' identities in the nationalist allegory" of that story. Swati Singh, in his "Secret History of the Jungle Book", notes that the tone is like that of Indian folklore, fable-like, and that critics have speculated that the Kipling may have heard similar stories from his Hindu bearer and his Portuguese "ayah" (nanny) during