Rewards and Fairies (Wordsworth Collection Children's Library) - Softcover

Kipling, Rudyard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261599 ISBN 13: 9781853261596

Publisher: Wordsworth Edition, 1999

Synopsis

Two children meet Puck, the last fairy left in England, on Pook's Hill at midsummer, and are taken back in time to meet figures from the past, including Queen Elizabeth I and a Stone-Age man

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About the Author

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born in India, and spent the first six years of his life there, acquiring Hindustani as a second language and living in a bungalow like that in The Jungle Book. He was then sent to a boarding house in England with his sister Alice, where he had a miserable time until he was sent to The United Services College at Westward Ho! in Devon, the model for Stalky & Co. He left school at sixteen to return to India and work on The Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, and his familiarity with all classes of society provided him with material for Barrack Room Ballads and Plain Tales from the Hills. In 1889 he returned to England and in 1891 published his novel The Light That Failed, and married Caroline (Carrie) Balestier the following year. They returned to her home Brattleboro, Vermont, where Kipling wrote the two Jungle Books and Captains Courageous. In 1896 the family returned to England, where Kipling continued to write prolifically, and was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. His later years were darkened by the death of his son John at the Battle of Loos in 1915. Kipling's long association with Macmillan began in 1891, with the publication of Life's Handicap and continued with most of Kipling's prose and children's works, available in multiple editions long after his death in 1936.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wordsworth Edition
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853261599
• ISBN 13: 9781853261596
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266