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On Midsummer’s Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Night’s Dream three times over - right under Pook’s Hill. That is how they meet Puck, “the oldest Old Thing in England” and the last of the People of the Hills. Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old England’s history and to characters that can illuminate their own historical predicaments. The god Weland is freed from an unwanted heathen immortality by a novice monk, Hugh, who goes on to become a warrior and leader. The centurion, Parnesius, shows an insight that is absent from the higher echelons of the declining Roman Empire in cooperating with the Picts. Originally published in 1906, these 10 stories and accompanying poems were intended for both adults and children. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born of English parents in Bombay, India. At 17, he began work as a journalist and then established an international reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and army life. In 1907 he became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

When Dan and Una stage a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream in a fairy ring, they are astonished by the appearance of Puck in person. He explains that he is the last of the People of the Hills, who started as gods before descending into this world. Puck leads the two children in a series of extraordinary historical adventures in which they meet, Romans and Crusaders, Saxons and Vikings. Kipling's charming songs and verses, including the famous Smuggler's Song are placed between each thrilling story. The book is beautifully illustrated by H.R. Millar.

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.

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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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.

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.