"Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies" tell the tale of how Una and Dan, performing a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck, the children are witnesses to tales of English History. Kipling's historical imagination extends to a variety of stories, many of which blend the ghostly and the farmiliar, and often anticipate his later writing in their themes - a sense of loss and breakdown, but also healing. First published in magazines between ...
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"Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies" tell the tale of how Una and Dan, performing a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck, the children are witnesses to tales of English History. Kipling's historical imagination extends to a variety of stories, many of which blend the ghostly and the farmiliar, and often anticipate his later writing in their themes - a sense of loss and breakdown, but also healing. First published in magazines between 1906 and 1910, the stories were accompanied by some of Kipling's most famous poems, including "If" and "The Way Through The Woods". This edition includes an introduction which dispels the myth that these stories are just a nostalgic look at English history, discusses their relationship to other historical fiction, and relates them to Kipling's earlier and later writings.
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Good. Size: 17 to 19 cm tall (12mo); Previous owner's ink inscription. 1939 edition. Rudyard Kipling Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.
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Very good in Good jacket. VGC/GC plus. Macmillan, 1940. Reprinted edition. Small format blue hardback (gilt illustration on the front cover, gilt lettering and decorations to the spine) in VGC, with Dj (some tears, marks, creases and nicks on the Dj cover) in GC plus. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark on the outer edges, small ink marks and light shelf wear inside the front and back endpapers, previous owner's inscription and date (1942) written inside the edges of the front cover. The book is in VGC for its age with some shelf wear on the Dj cover. 310pp including List of illustrations.
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Good Condition. Library sticker on front cover; ink stamps to endpapers, including withdrawn stamp; spine label and shelf number to spine. Dust jacket absent. Contents clean and fresh. Bindings firm, spine intact. A presentable used copy without significant flaws. Category: Great Britain; Space and time; Puck (Legendary character); Barton, Andrew, -1511; Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557; Fondazione Magna Carta; John, King of England, 1167-1216; Secularization; Add. Inventory No: 220728TRH006054.
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
We are Kipling fans, dyed in the wool, but had never heard of this gem. Two children enact "Midsummer Night's Dream" twice in a row at the foot of "Pook's Hill," on their farm. This conjures "Pook," who is ... Puck, who "jests to Oberon!" From this inspired beginning ensues the summer's adventures for these two children, who in their playful rambles continue to encounter "Pook," or "Puck," the most enchanting (literally) companion ever encountered. In these summer adventures Puck introduces them to figures from English history whose stories, or rather histories, took place on what is now this very farm. The book is a delight, clever and endearing, unexpectedly moving, utterly wonderful.
margaret b
Aug 1, 2011
Specialized fairy story
It's not exactly exciting, but if you like historical events then it is quite interesting. I read it for the life of the Picts having been on Orkney and visited Skara Brae and Maeshowe.
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