This collected set gathers Kipling's best-known fiction and verse rather than a single narrative. The Jungle Books follow Mowgli among the animals of an Indian forest; Kim sends an orphan through British India with a lama and the Great Game; Just So Stories invent comic origins for beasts and writing; Puck of Pook's Hill brings episodes of English history to two children on a Sussex hillside. Companion volumes sample the short stories of soldiers, civil servants, and children in India and England, and the poems of barrack, sea, and empire. The whole is a cross-section of his Indian and English imaginative worlds.
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8 Subjects| No. | Volume Title | Page Count |
|---|---|---|
| Vol. 1 | The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 2 | The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 3 | Just So Stories for Little Children by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 4 | Kim by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 5 | Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 6 | Poems by Rudyard Kipling | — |
| Vol. 7 | Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling | — |
Reprints of earlier productions in black seven-volume slipcase. The Jungle Book/The Second Jungle Book/Just So Stories/Kim/Short Stories/Poems/Pook of Puck's Hill (in the American issue this was replaced with Captain's Courageous).
| Printing | Print Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1st Printing | 1996 | — |