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Rewards and Fairies

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Rewards and Fairies
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rudyard Kipling
SeriesMacmillan Children's Books Paperback Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:448
Dimensions(mm): Height 196,Width 130
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781509830749
ClassificationsDewey:823.8
Audience
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Macmillan Children's Books
Publication Date 19 May 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This second collection of stories and poetry featuring Dan and Una and their adventures with the fairy, Puck, is a classic to treasure. Set in the surroundings of his Sussex home, Bateman's, Kipling's sparkling storytelling perfectly captures the myth and mystery of the English countryside. Originally published by Macmillan in 1910, the collection includes If, the nation's favourite poem and features original illustrations by Charles E. Brock.

Author Biography

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.