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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

SPECIAL PRESENTATION: MOWGLI'S BROTHERS from THE JUNGLE BOOK at 1001 GREATEST LOVE & FAMILY STORIES

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A young "man-cub" is raised by wolves in the jungles of India in this great story by Kipling- the first of many single chapter short stories in Kipling's 'The Jungle Book', which we are now reading chapter by chapter at 1001 Greatest Love & Family Stories. See show notes for links to Apple & Spotify. The story teaches loyalty, love, and courage, and The Jungle Book remains one of the biggest selling books ever written.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome everyone to this special presentation from

0:27.2

one-thousand-One-G greatest love and family stories as we offer the first chapter of

0:32.3

Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, titled Mogley's Brothers.

0:37.0

We just started the full Jungle Book, chapter by chapter, and each chapter is a full story in itself at 1,001 greatest love and family stories.

0:46.8

And I wanted to introduce chapter one here for you short story listeners who would like

0:51.0

to add to your short story collection this fall.

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All you have to do is pick up one thousand one greatest love and family stories where we're going

0:58.6

to be doing every chapter from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.

1:02.1

Enjoy!

1:04.0

Welcome back, faithful listeners, to 1001 Greatest Love and Family Stories,

1:09.0

and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book,

1:11.0

one of the most read and enjoyed books for all ages ever written.

1:15.0

I'll give you some history of the book so you can better enjoy the stories and the man that created them.

1:20.0

The Jungle Book, which was written in 1894, is a collection of stories in which most of the

1:26.5

characters are animals such as Sher Khan, the Tiger, and Balu the Bear. Though a principal character is the boy or mancub, Mogley, who is raised in the

1:36.7

jungle by wolves. The stories are set in a forest in India. One place mentioned repeatedly is Cioni in the central state of Madhya Pradesh.

1:46.3

We don't often think of India as having large jungle areas, but they certainly do,

1:51.5

along with Bengal Tigers and elephants and monkeys, and dangerous cobras, all of which you'll meet in these stories.

1:59.0

Mokley is a human boy who's an orphan, and he is surviving well and learning the ways of the

2:04.0

jungle much in the same way the children learn the ways of man but in this case all

2:09.2

his lessons come from the animals there is is love, courage, faithfulness, responsibility, and much more

2:15.9

experience through Kipling's characters. Even if you've read the stories as a child, there's

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