Puck of Pook's HillA fantasy book containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It is both an historical fantasy as well as a contemporary fantasy since it depicts a magical being, the elf Puck, practising his magic in the England of the eary 1900's. The stories are narrated to two children, Dan and Una, living near Barwash. |
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