Kipling RudyardABAA
Kipling RudyardABAA
Puck of Pook’s Hill.
1906125313Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz 1906. First Tauchnitz edition of Kipling's collection of historical fantasy tales. Octavo original wrappers. In good condition. Set in multiple periods of English history Kipling's Puck stories are each narrated to two children living near Burwash in the High Weald of Sussex 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 the 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. Bernhard Tauchnitz unknown books
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