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Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Near Fine/no jacket. No date, but limited to 80 copies, probably 1976. WorldCat located 6 copies. Lightest wear to the book, clean and unmarked; no jacket. A scholarly annotated edition. 'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written. The stories are all narrated to two children living near Burwash, in the area of Kipling's own house Bateman's, by people magically plucked out of history by the elf Puck, or told by Puck himself. (Puck, who refers to himself as "the oldest Old Thing in England", is better known as a character in William…
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The children were at the Theatre, acting to Three Cows as much as they could remember of Midsummer Night's Dream. Their father had made them a small play out of the big Shakespeare one, and they had rehearsed it with him and with their mother till they could say it by heart. They began when Nick Bottom the weaver comes out of the bushes with a donkey's head on his shoulders, and finds Titania, Queen of the Fairies, asleep.
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- Título Puck of Pooks Hill
- Autor Rudyard Kipling
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Editorial Amereon Ltd, Mattituck, NY
- Fecha de publicación June 1940
- ISBN 9780848801731
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Puck of Pooks Hill
de Rudyard Kipling
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- near fine
- Tapa dura
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- Usado - Near Fine
- Encuadernación
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780848801731 / 0848801733
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
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