Puck of Pook's Hill - Rudyard Kipling - Books - INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED - 9798733384436 - April 5, 2021
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Puck of Pook's Hill

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy - since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy - since it depicts a magical being active and practicing his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England," is better known as a character in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.) The genres of particular stories range from the authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the Thirtieth, On the Great Wall) to children's fantasy (Dymchurch Flit). Each story is bracketed by a poem that relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 5, 2021
ISBN13 9798733384436
Publishers INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED
Pages 240
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 13 mm   ·   326 g
Language English  

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