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Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936), recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, was an English novelist, short-story writer, and poet. His sweeping tales of adventure, including Kim, Captains Courageous, and The jungle Book, won him wide popularity during his lifetime and have been beloved by generations.
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Mowgli (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Adventure stories, English.
Jungle animals -- Fiction.
Feral children -- Fiction.
India -- Fiction.
Boys -- Fiction.
Jungles -- Fiction.
Animals -- Fiction.
Short stories.