Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Puck of Pooks Hill Audiobook by Rudyard Kipling
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Puck of Pooks Hill Audiobook by Rudyard Kipling
Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Puck of Pooks Hill
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-16-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
On Midsummers Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Nights Dream three times over - right under Pooks Hill. That is how they meet Puck, the oldest Old Thing in England and the last of the People of the Hills. Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old Englands history and to characters that can illuminate their own historical predicaments.
The god Weland is freed from an unwanted heathen immortality by a novice monk, Hugh, who goes on to become a warrior and leader. The centurion, Parnesius, shows an insight that is absent from the higher echelons of the declining Roman Empire in cooperating with the Picts.
Originally published in 1906, these 10 stories and accompanying poems were intended for both adults and children.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born of English parents in Bombay, India. At 17, he began work as a journalist and then established an international reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and army life. In 1907 he became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.
Critic Reviews:
The hidden history of old England, lovingly written by Kipling for his own children, is coupled with a brilliant reading to make this one of the premier family listening events of the year. The story has everything listeners could want: enchantment, high adventure, battles, intrigue, all wrapped up in romantic poetic languagebrought exquisitely to life by [Nadia May]. (AudioFile)
[Wanda McCaddon]has the requisite British accent and very good judgment as to how to make the tales exciting yet believable. (Wilson Library Bulletin)
Members Reviews:
If you like Harry Potter....
If you like Harry Potter, this book is for you!
The British have a wonderful tradition of excellent adult authors writing fantasy children's books that are also fun reads for adults. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter", C.S. Lewis' "Alice in Wonderland" and "Chronicles of Narnia", and J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" all spring to mind. Even J.R.R. Tolkien's "Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" were YA accessible and appropriate. But who would have thought Rudyard Kipling falls into this category?
The book Puck of Pook's Hill follows two children, Dan and his sister Una, as they spend an enchanted summer in the English countryside. When they perform Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" under the oldest hill in England three times in a row on Midsummer's Eve, who should appear, but the magical faun Puck.
In a series of short episodes, Puck introduces Dan and Una to various characters from England's history, including a Roman legionnaire, a Nobleman, a money-lender, a blacksmith, and one of the old pre-Christian pagan Gods -- Weyland. The story-telling is masterful, the writing lyrical, and the plot moves along quite quickly. The story is interspersed with lots of poems by Kipling, who was, after all, a master poet. Puck is the type of book you can read out loud to your children in the evening, and they won't get bored. Each chapter is just the right length for a bedtime story. Or, you can keep it all to yourself and savor every last word of it. The only problem with reading it to your children is that they will ask you millions of questions about it.
View all episodes
By DOWNLOAD FULL AUDIOBOOKS FOR FREE ON HOTAUDIOBOOK.COMPlease open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Puck of Pooks Hill
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Narrator: Wanda McCaddon
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-16-12
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature
Publisher's Summary:
On Midsummers Eve, Dan and Una enact A Midsummer Nights Dream three times over - right under Pooks Hill. That is how they meet Puck, the oldest Old Thing in England and the last of the People of the Hills. Through Puck, they are introduced to the nearly forgotten pages of old Englands history and to characters that can illuminate their own historical predicaments.
The god Weland is freed from an unwanted heathen immortality by a novice monk, Hugh, who goes on to become a warrior and leader. The centurion, Parnesius, shows an insight that is absent from the higher echelons of the declining Roman Empire in cooperating with the Picts.
Originally published in 1906, these 10 stories and accompanying poems were intended for both adults and children.
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was born of English parents in Bombay, India. At 17, he began work as a journalist and then established an international reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and army life. In 1907 he became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.
Critic Reviews:
The hidden history of old England, lovingly written by Kipling for his own children, is coupled with a brilliant reading to make this one of the premier family listening events of the year. The story has everything listeners could want: enchantment, high adventure, battles, intrigue, all wrapped up in romantic poetic languagebrought exquisitely to life by [Nadia May]. (AudioFile)
[Wanda McCaddon]has the requisite British accent and very good judgment as to how to make the tales exciting yet believable. (Wilson Library Bulletin)
Members Reviews:
If you like Harry Potter....
If you like Harry Potter, this book is for you!
The British have a wonderful tradition of excellent adult authors writing fantasy children's books that are also fun reads for adults. J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter", C.S. Lewis' "Alice in Wonderland" and "Chronicles of Narnia", and J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" all spring to mind. Even J.R.R. Tolkien's "Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" were YA accessible and appropriate. But who would have thought Rudyard Kipling falls into this category?
The book Puck of Pook's Hill follows two children, Dan and his sister Una, as they spend an enchanted summer in the English countryside. When they perform Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" under the oldest hill in England three times in a row on Midsummer's Eve, who should appear, but the magical faun Puck.
In a series of short episodes, Puck introduces Dan and Una to various characters from England's history, including a Roman legionnaire, a Nobleman, a money-lender, a blacksmith, and one of the old pre-Christian pagan Gods -- Weyland. The story-telling is masterful, the writing lyrical, and the plot moves along quite quickly. The story is interspersed with lots of poems by Kipling, who was, after all, a master poet. Puck is the type of book you can read out loud to your children in the evening, and they won't get bored. Each chapter is just the right length for a bedtime story. Or, you can keep it all to yourself and savor every last word of it. The only problem with reading it to your children is that they will ask you millions of questions about it.