Puck of Pook’s Hill
Puck is an elf who magicks people from the past to tell their stories to two children in
England.
These first ten Puck stories were published in British version of The
Strand Magazine from January through October of this year. In the states, the first
four stories appeared simultaneously in The Ladies’ Home Journal. All ten
stories along with sixteen poems were published together in the 1906 collection, Puck
of Pook’s Hill.
- “Weland’s Sword” The
Strand, Jan 1906
- “Young Men at the Manor” The Strand, Feb
1906
- “The Knights of the Joyous Venture” The Strand, Mar
1906
- “Old Men at Pevensey” The Strand, Apr 1906
- “A Centurion
of the Thirtieth” The Strand, May 1906
- “On the Great Wall” The
Strand, Jun 1906
- “The Winged Hats” The Strand, Jul
1906
- “Hal o’ the Draft” The Strand, Aug 1906
- “Dimchurch
Flit” The Strand, Sep 1906
- “The Treasure and the Law” The
Strand, Oct 1906
Some of these stories were told by Puck himself rather than
by historical figures. Puck told me that the first time-traveling storyteller was Sir
Richard Dalyngridge in the second Puck story in the February
Strand.
— Michael Main
‘But you said that all the fair—People of the Hills had left England.’
‘So they
have; but I told you that you should come and go and look and know, didn’t I? The
knight isn’t a fairy. He’s Sir Richard Dalyngridge, a very old friend of mine. He
came over with William the Conqueror, and he wants to see you particularly.’