Puck of Pook's Hill - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Puck of Pook's Hill is one of the lesser known tales of Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1935); the famed author of 'The Jungle Book'. It is a fantasy novel, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash (East Sussex) - by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. The genres of particular stories range from authentic historical novella (A Centurion of the Thirt...