Research Catalog

Title

Puck of Pook's Hill / illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Author

Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936

Publication

New York : Doubleday, Page, 1906.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939
• Doubleday, Page & Company pbl

Description

277 p., col. front., 3 col. pl.; 21 cm.

Summary

Tells the story of Dan and Una and their adventures with Puck as he introduces them to the nearly forgotten pages of Old England's history and to the people who had lived near Pook's Hill and helped make that history from the time of Hadrian's Wall to the signing of Magna Carta and the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Includes stories and poems.

Subject

• Barton, Andrew, -1511 > Juvenile literature
• Cabot, Sebastian, approximately 1474-1557 > Juvenile literature
• John, King of England, 1167-1216 > Juvenile literature
• Puck (Legendary character) > Juvenile literature
• Fondazione Magna Carta > Juvenile literature
• 1500-1599
• Secularization > Great Britain > History > 16th century > Juvenile literature
• Space and time > Fiction
• Space and time > Juvenile literature
• Great Britain > History > Juvenile literature
• Hadrian's Wall (England) > History > Juvenile literature

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• History
• Juvenile works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Puck's song. - Weland's sword. - A tree song. - Young men at the manor. - Sir Richard's song. - Harp song of the Dane women. - The knights of the joyous venture. - Thorkild's song. - Old men at Pevensey. - The runes on Weland's sword. - A centurion of the Thirtieth. - A Britsh-Roman song. - On the great wall. - A song to Mithras.- The winged hats. - A Pict song. - Hal o' the draft. - A smuggler's song. - The bee boy's song. - 'Dymchurch Flit'. - A three-part song. - Song of the fifth river. - The treasure and the law. - The children's song.

LCCN

^^^06035734^

OCLC

• 542890
• SCSB-12487514

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library