Rewards and Fairies
1910
Rewards and Fairies
1910
On a midsummer morning in the Sussex Weald, two children discover that England's old magic never quite left. Dan and Una wander near Kipling's own home when they summon Puck, the fairy who offers them something extraordinary: not escape from the present, but passage into its layered past. Through the fairy's power, the children stand beside flint-age hunters, walk the corridors of Queen Elizabeth's court, and witness Napoleon's final defeat. Each encounter is narrated by a figure who lived it, making history feel not like a museum but a living memory. The book contains two of the most quoted poems in the English language: "If, " (often called Britain's favorite poem) and "The Way Through the Woods." But this isn't history lesson dressed in fairy dust. Kipling embeds something sharper beneath the charm: warnings about progress, the cost of empire, the fragility of what we build. The book rewards rereading, when you notice what you missed as a child. It is for readers who loved The House at Pooh Corner, for those drawn to England's layered landscape, for anyone who wonders what we owe to the dead.
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“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:If you can dream”
— Rudyard Kipling
“For these simples used aright Shall restore a failing sight. These shall cleanse and purify Webbed and inward-turning eye; These shall show thee treasure hid, Thy familiar fields amid, At thy threshold, on thy hearth, Or about thy daily path; And reveal (which is thy need) Every man a King indeed!””
— Rudyard Kipling
“If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise...””
— Rudyard Kipling
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