Rudyard Kipling: Puck of Pook's Hill

Rudyard Kipling is a world-renowned writer, poet, and novelist, and the first English author to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies" (comprised of the collections "Puck of Pook's Hill" and "Rewards and Fairies"), along with "The Jungle Book," are among the author's most famous works. In this book, magical tales of elves and spirits are woven together with captivating stories that present almost the entire history of England: the Stone Age, the period of Roman rule, the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the war with Napoleon... And what a diverse cast of characters — ancient shepherds and Roman soldiers, monks and Vikings, kings and smugglers, Native Americans and pirates... Kipling strives to set major historical events against the backdrop of his native Sussex, reminding us how closely history touches the lives of ordinary people; the writer compels the reader to reflect on eternal questions that concern us even today — about happiness and the meaning of life, about duty and destiny.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

Translators: Marina Boroditskaya, Grigory Kruzhkov, Tatyana Chernysheva

Pages: 544 (newsprint). Paperback

Dimensions: 180x115x18 mm

Series: Azbooka-Classics