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On Midsummer Eve, two children, Dan and Una, act scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream in a meadow below Pook's Hill in Sussex, and accidentally summon Puck…
On Midsummer Eve, two children, Dan and Una, act scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream in a meadow below Pook's Hill in Sussex, and accidentally summon Puck, the last of the fairies left in England. Through the summer he brings them visitors from the past who lived on the same land: Sir Richard, a Norman knight of the Conquest; Parnesius, a Roman centurion guarding Hadrian's Wall against the Picts; and others, who tell their stories, after which Puck makes the children forget.
Context and significance
Rudyard Kipling published the book in 1906, inspired by the history of the country around his house, Bateman's, in Sussex, and it contains 'A Tree Song', with its refrain of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn'. The story continues in Rewards and Fairies. Read The Jungle Book, and see his life.
About the author
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born in Bombay, sent to England at five to an unhappy foster home, and returned to India at sixteen to work as a journalist in Lahore. His stories of Anglo-Indian life made him famous in London in his twenties.
The Jungle Book, written in Vermont, Kim and Just So Stories became classics, and in 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize. His poem 'If—' is still widely quoted, though his support for empire makes him a controversial figure today. His only son was killed in the First World War.