Puck of Pook's Hill

by Rudyard Kipling from 1906

About

Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill (1906) is one of his strangest and finest books: two children performing A Midsummer Night's Dream in a dell accidentally summon the real Puck, who brings historical figures — Roman centurions, Norman knights, Elizabethan sea-merchants — to tell their stories. The book blends fairy-tale, historical fiction, and lyric poetry into a meditation on English identity and the weight of history.

Edwardian Lyrical Eerie Moving Solemnen

Puck of Pook's Hill

Words: 57.6k
Duration: ~7 hr 12 min

15 sections

57.6k words

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CONTENTS

70:03

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Young Men at the Manor Sir Richard's Song

860:39

3

Puck's Song

6.3k47:13

4

YOUNG MEN AT THE MANOR

5.8k43:18

5

Sir Richard's Song

2461:51

6

Harp Song of the Dane Women

7.1k52:59

7

Thorkild's Song

1481:07

8

OLD MEN AT PEVENSEY

6.8k50:59

9

A CENTURION OF THE THIRTIETH

4.9k36:40

10

ON THE GREAT WALL

5.7k42:53

11

THE WINGED HATS

6k44:38

12

HAL O' THE DRAFT

4.8k35:59

13

The Bee Boy's Song

4.6k34:30

14

Song of the Fifth River

5k37:51

15

The Children's Song

2201:39

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