Author of such famous works as "Kim", "Intrepid Captains" and "The man who could reign", Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, always knew how to make the short story a perfect literary structure. The Book of the Virgin Lands is a compilation of fifteen stories among which is the series that Mowgli stars, and in which his knowledge of the greatness and diversity of India and a sensitivity to the precursor nature of the of current times.