Puck of Pook's Hill (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Rudyard Kipling

An enduring classic of fantasy literature, and an invaluable compendium of fairy tales and history, Puck of Pook's Hill, published in 1906, features an elf named Puck, who takes two human children, Dan and Una, on an exciting adventure through England's wondrously rich past.  

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Feb 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411435339

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865. After intermittently moving between India and England during his early life, he settled in the latter in 1889, published his novel The Light That Failed in 1891 and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home in Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote both The Jungle Book and its sequel, as well as Captains Courageous. He continued to write prolifically and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907 but his later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. He died in 1936.