Author of such famous works as "Kim", "intrepid captains" or "The man who could be king", Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907, he always knew how to make the short story a perfect literary structure. "The Book of the Virgin Lands" is a compilation of fifteen stories, including the series starring Mowgli, and in which his knowledge of the greatness and diversity of India and a sensitivity towards pioneering nature are admirably combined. of that of the present times.