Books with title Puck of Pook's Hill: Illustrated

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the premier illustrators of the early 20th Century. He illustrated many books, the first of which was published in 1893. Throughout his career he had developed a very individual style that is was to influence a whole generation of children, artists and other illustrators. His haunting humour and dreamlike romance adds to the enchantment and fantasy of children's literature.

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 practising 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 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 which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.Donald Mackenzie, who wrote the introduction for the Oxford World's Classics edition of Puck of Pook's Hill in 1987, has described this book as an example of archaeological imagination that, in fragments, delivers a look at the history of England, climaxing with the signing of Magna Carta.Puck calmly concludes the series of stories: "Weland gave the Sword, The Sword gave the Treasure, and the Treasure gave the Law. It's as natural as an oak growing."The stories originally appeared in the Strand Magazine in 1906 with illustrations by Claude Allen Shepperson, but the first book-form edition was illustrated by H. R. Millar. Arthur Rackham provided four colour plates for the first US edition. Puck of Pook's Hill was followed four years later by a second volume, Rewards and Fairies, featuring the same children in the following summer.T. S. Eliot included several of the poems in his 1941 collection A Choice of Kipling's Verse.

Contents(Short Stories)Puck’s SongWeland’s SwordA Tree SongYoung Men at the ManorSir Richard’s SongHarp Song of the Dane WomenThe Knights of the Joyous VentureThorkild’s SongOld Men at PevenseyThe Runes on Weland’s SwordA Centurion of the ThirtiethA British-Roman SongOn the Great WallA Song to MithrasThe Winged HatsA Pict SongHal o’ the DraftA Smugglers’ SongThe Bee Boy’s Song‘Dymchurch Flit’A Three-Part SongSong of the Fifth RiverThe Treasure and the LawThe Children’s SongExcerpt:PUCK’S SONGSee you the dimpled track that runs,All hollow through the wheat?O that was where they hauled the gunsThat smote King Philip’s fleet.See you our little mill that clacks,So busy by the brook?She has ground her corn and paid her taxEver since Domesday Book.See you our stilly woods of oak,And the dread ditch beside?O that was where the Saxons broke,On the day that Harold died.See you the windy levels spreadAbout the gates of Rye?O that was where the Northmen fled,When Alfred’s ships came by.See you our pastures wide and lone,Where the red oxen browse?O there was a City thronged and known,Ere London boasted a house.And see you, after rain, the traceOf mound and ditch and wall?O that was a Legion’s camping-place,When Cæsar sailed from Gaul.[pg 2] And see you marks that show and fade,Like shadows on the Downs?O they are the lines the Flint Men made,To guard their wondrous towns.Trackway and Camp and City lost,Salt Marsh where now is corn;Old Wars, old Peace, old Arts that cease,And so was England born!She is not any common Earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin’s Isle of Gramarye,Where you and I will fare.

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book, 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 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 which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature.

This beautifully illustrated eBook edition of "Puck of Pook's Hill " has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book, 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 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 which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature; and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

A pair of children happen across an ancient shrine, where they conjure up an impish sprite named Puck, who treats them to a series of tales about Old England. Rudyard Kipling, the storyteller behind Puck's fables, lived in the East Sussex region of Pook's Hill. To amuse his children, Kipling created these quasi-historical stories about the people who lived in their neighborhood centuries ago.Readers of all ages will treasure Puck's ten magical tales of adventure and intrigue. Kipling's imaginative blend of fact and fancy transports readers back to the days of William the Conqueror, to the camps of the Roman legions who guarded Hadrian's Wall against the Picts, and to the thirteenth-century court of King John. All of the stories abound in the freshness of invention and narrative vigor that have kept the author's books popular for generations. Each enchanting myth is followed by a selection of Kipling's spirited poetry.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was an enthusiastic proponent of British imperialism and writer of poetry, short stories and novels. He was also the first English-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. Born in Bombay, India, Kipling was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. These contrasting environments preserved in the author nostalgia for the Eden-like setting of India, where he recalled family and friendly local servants doting upon him, and which set the stage for his popular tales like "The Jungle Book". Written while he was living in the lush, unspoiled countryside of Sussex in 1906, "Puck of Pook's Hill" tells a series of stories on the history of England through the voice of the Shakespearean elf, Puck. Puck appears to two children – Dan and Una – as they are playing in a meadow near their home, and recounts tales from the past 2000 years, much to the children's delight.

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling,[1] 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 practising 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 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 which relates in some manner to the theme or subject of the story.

This is a nice edition of Puck of Pook's Hill, with illustrations by André Castaigne.The Outward Bound edition of The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling has long been regarded as one of the most important collected editions of Rudyard Kipling's works. John Lockwood Kipling provided the illustrations for nearly all the early volumes of this beautifully printed deluxe set . The first twenty-five volumes of the Outward Bound edition were arranged as follows:Volume 1. Plain Tales from the Hills. 350 pages.Volume 2. Soldiers Three and Military Tales - Part I. 307 pages.Volume 3. Soldiers Three and Military Tales - Part II. 282 pages.Volume 4. In Black and White. 389 pages.Volume 5. The Phantom 'Rickshaw. 387 pages.Volume 6. Under the Deodars. The Story of the Gadsbys. Wee Willie Winkie. 368 pages.Volume 7. The Jungle Book. 341 pages.Volume 8. The Second Jungle Book. 228 pages.Volume 9. The Light That Failed. 329 pages.Volume 10. The Naulahka. 377 pages.Volume 11. Verses 1889-1896. 359 pages.Volume 12. Captains Courageous. 242 pages.Volume 13. The Days Work - Part I. 310 pages.Volume 14. The Days Work - Part II. 305 pages.Volume 15. From Sea to Sea - Part I. 494 pages.Volume 16. From Sea to Sea - Part II. 553 pages.Volume 17. Early Verse. 292 pages.Volume 18. Stalky & Co. 330 pages.Volume 19. Kim. 474 pages.Volume 20. Just So Stories. 280 pages.Volume 21. The Five Nations. 202 pages.Volume 22. Traffics and Discoveries. 438 pages.Volume 23. Puck of Pook's Hill. 305 pages.Volume 24. Actions and Reactions. 324 pages.Volume 25. Rewards and Fairies. 378 pages.Specially formatted to look good on Kindle Fire or tablet with full eBook table of contents added.

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From the author of The Jungle Book comes a magical fantasy story, rich in historical detail and filled with intrigue and excitementUna and Dan, reciting Shakespeare on a summer's evening in rural Sussex, unwittingly summon the elf Puck. They are taken on a fantastic journey through Britain's past, their magical companion plucking from history an array of fascinating characters for them to meet: Parnesius, a Roman centurion who manned Hadrian's wall; Wayland, a Saxon warrior and blacksmith; Sir Richard, a Norman knight who made an extraordinary journey to Africa; and many others. Each offers a story from his own life, mixing war and politics with adventure and intrigue. Each is rich with historical detail. One of the great classics of children's literature, Puck of Pook's Hill is by turns a fantastical story of magical otherness and a compelling exploration of history. A runaway success on first publication, it still has the power to excite children and their parents alike.