title: The Jungle Book : The Classic Tale
author:  Rudyard Kipling 
description: <div><B>Joseph Rudyard Kipling</B> (December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936) was a British author and poet, born in India. He is best known for the children's story <I>The Jungle Book</I> (1894), the Indian spy novel <I>Kim</I> (1901), the poems <I>Gunga Din</I> (1892), <I>If</I> (1895), and his many short stories.The height of his popularity was the first decade of the 20th century: in 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, still its youngest-ever recipient to date, and in 1934 he shared the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry with William Butler Yeats. In his own lifetime he was primarily considered a poet, and was even offered a knighthood and the post of British Poet Laureate- though he turned them both down.</div>
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  # The Jungle Book
  
  
  ## Rudyard Kipling
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  **Published:** 1894  
  
  
  **Categorie(s):** Fiction, Fantasy  
  
  
  **Source:** Wikisource
  
  
  
  
  
  **About Kipling:**  
  
  
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936)
  
  
  was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today
  
  
  for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The
  
  
  Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and Puck of
  
  
  Pook's Hill (1906); his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including
  
  
  Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many
  
  
  short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888) and the
  
  
  collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and
  
  
  Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). He is regarded as a major
  
  
  "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are
  
  
  enduring classics of children's literature; a