Puck of Pook's Hill
1906
Puck of Pook's Hill
1906
Two children stumble into the old England still breathing beneath the modern world. In a Sussex meadow, Dan and Una chance upon Puck, the trickster fairy who has guarded these islands since before Rome came, and he introduces them to ghosts: a Roman centurion who walked Hadrian's Wall, a Saxon smith with secrets from the age of kings, the men who signed Magna Carta. Each figure rises from the past to tell his story, and each tale carries the weight of centuries. The children listen, and England becomes a living thing again. Kipling wrote this at the height of empire, but there's no jingoism here, only wonder. The prose has that unmistakable Edwardian quality, where children still believe in magic and history feels close enough to touch. The poems that frame each story work like incantations, binding past to present. This is a book for anyone who has ever stood in an old place and felt the pull of what happened there.
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“It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“Threatened men live long.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not.””
— Rudyard Kipling
“I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)””
— Rudyard Kipling
“Cites and Thrones and PowersStand in Time's eyeWhich daily die;But, as new buds put forthTo glad new men, Out of the spend and unconsidered Earth,The cities will rise again””
— Rudyard Kipling
“Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.””
— Rudyard Kipling
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