Name: Puck of Pook's Hill
SKU: 56747812
Price: 389.00 ZAR
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Author: Mybook ; Kipling, Rudyard
ISBN: 9781975981013

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Physical Book

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Illustrated by

Mybook

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

276

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9x15.2x1.5 cm

Weight

0.37 kg.

ISBN13

9781975981013

Synopsis "Puck of Pook's Hill"

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

Rudyard Kipling

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Bombay, (1865-1936). Rudyard Kipling wrote novels, poems, and stories mainly set in India and Burma during the British rule. Kipling was a prolific and popular writer, and his literature always revolves around three axes: patriotism, the duty of the English to lead a life of intense activity, and the destiny of England, called to be a great empire. His insistence on this last aspect was undoubtedly an echo of the Victorian past, and severely damaged his reputation as a writer, despite being the first British author awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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