WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
Jungle Tales cover

Jungle Tales

Chapter 1: JUNGLE TALES
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

A collection of seven short stories set in India that portray village life, camp and cantonment scenes, and encounters in the jungle. The tales move between sentimental animal incidents, moral dilemmas, and personal tragedies, sketching local customs, social tensions, and belief in ritual. Narratives emphasize close observation of landscape and character, using vivid descriptive detail and measured emotion to examine loyalty, betrayal, social exclusion, and appeals to the gods. Pieces range from light sketches of everyday station life to darker episodes of loss and exile, united by sympathetic attention to the people and environments depicted.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jungle Tales

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: Jungle Tales

Author: B. M. Croker

Illustrator: John Charlton

Release date: June 7, 2021 [eBook #65561]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Credits: MWS, SF2001, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JUNGLE TALES ***

JUNGLE TALES