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Краткое содержание: Награды и феи
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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Dan and Una meet Puck on a Sussex hill, and history walks out of the fern to tell them its stories.
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Награды и феи — кратко о книге
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- Длительность
- Слов: 71 600
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1910by Редьярд Киплинг
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Награды и феи in short
Rewards and Fairies gathers its tales and poems around one idea. The past is not gone, because it lies under the fields, the church floors and the hedges of a Sussex farm. Puck lets Dan and Una see it.
What Награды и феи is about
What happens when two children take off their boots on Midsummer Morning? Dan and Una, brother and sister in the Sussex countryside, walk barefoot up Pook's Hill and find Puck waiting. He is the last of the People of the Hills, and he lets them see what once happened in their own fields.
Rewards and Fairies is Rudyard Kipling's second book of tales about Dan, Una and Puck. Most stories bring a visitor out of the past, and poems stand between the tales, among them the one called If. You will hear what each tale holds and what ties them together.
Для кого. You will love this book if you enjoy history told by lively talkers, English country lanes, ships and smugglers, old crafts, and stories with deep meaning under a clear surface.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
Cold Iron and a masked queen's lady
The book opens on Midsummer Morning. Dan and Una slip out before breakfast, take off their boots, and find the old magic coming back on Pook's Hill. Puck tells them why boots matter. The nails in the soles are Cold Iron, and people who live in houses are ruled by it.
He tells of a baby boy whom he takes from a church door to the fairy Hill. Sir Huon and Lady Esclairmonde raise the Boy far from iron, yet he keeps looking toward people in houses. One night he finds a slave ring of iron in the dark, with runes cut across it. It means he must go among people and work for them. The fairies weep, because a boy cannot stay a child once the world calls him.
In Gloriana, a masked lady puts on a play about Queen Elizabeth deciding how much England must risk. The children must judge whether a ruler who sends young men to danger does wrong.
Power in these two stories always comes with a price.
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A master mason teaches that pride shows in the work
In The Wrong Thing, Dan takes his model boats to Mr Springett's yard.
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Philadelphia's cough, a Witchmaster, and a doctor's trumpet
Una meets Philadelphia Bucksteed, a sixteen-year-old in a lavender riding habit who coughs a little between sentences.
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A one-eyed shepherd pays the price for a Magic Knife
The children spend a month on the bare Sussex Downs.
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A smuggler's son meets Washington and Talleyrand
Brother Square-Toes begins at The Gap, where Puck brings the children a neat brown man named Pharaoh Lee.
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A bishop's seal and a physician's rats
The Conversion of St Wilfrid begins in the village church.
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A shipbuilder remembers Drake and a king hunts in Sussex
In Simple Simon, a timber tug drawn by five horses frees a great oak log, and Puck introduces a shy giant named Simon Cheyneys, shipbuilder of Rye.
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What else could I have done? Duty and its price
A question runs through the book.
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Honest work and plain kindness outlast show
A second thread joins the tales, the dignity of honest work.
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How Kipling builds each tale and its poems
Every story rests on the same frame.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Dan A boy who loves building models and asking questions, and who sees the past on his own farm.
- Una Dan's sister, quick to speak up for the people she likes and to judge the stories she hears.
- Puck The last of the People of the Hills, who brings visitors from history to the children and keeps his promises.
- Old Hobden The farm's hedger and trapper, who knows every gap and every rabbit, and brings the children back to earth.
- Pharaoh Lee A smuggler's son from Sussex who speaks French, English and German, and meets Washington and Talleyrand.
- Philadelphia Bucksteed The squire's sixteen-year-old daughter, proud mistress of Marklake Hall, who hopes her cough will leave in London air.
- Nicholas Culpeper A physician and astrologer who holds that the planets rule plagues, and who sets out to save a village.
- Hal o' the Draft A master mason and carver who tells Mr Springett and Dan how pride shows in a craftsman's work.
How it ends (spoiler)
The stories return Dan and Una to ordinary country life, and the final tale closes with a dormouse settled to sleep until spring. In The Tree of Justice, the old pilgrim dies in the King's presence, resting on Hugh's shoulder. Afterward, Hobden shows the children a sleeping dormouse in its woven nest. Una wants to take it home, but Hobden rejects a life in a cage and puts it in a hedge to sleep until spring.
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Вопросы о книге Награды и феи
What is Rewards and Fairies about?
It follows Dan and Una, two children in Sussex, as Puck brings visitors from the past to tell them stories. The tales cover queens, masons, smugglers, a bishop, a physician and a shipbuilder, with poems between them.
What does Cold Iron mean in the book?
Cold Iron stands for the world of work, duty and mortal life. Puck says people in houses are ruled by it, and the opening story shows a fairy-raised boy who must take on its weight.
Are the stories true, and when were they written?
They are fiction built around real people and events, such as Queen Elizabeth, Francis Drake, Talleyrand and George Washington. Kipling published the book in 1910, as a follow-up to his earlier Puck stories.
Is Rewards and Fairies easy to read?
Its frame is simple, and each story is a lively talk between the children and a visitor. Short scenes, jokes and strong voices carry the reader along, and the poems add rhythm.
Как сослаться на это издание
Kipling, Rudyard. Rewards and Fairies. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/rewards-and-fairies.
Kipling, R. (2026). Rewards and fairies. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rewards-and-fairies (Original work published 1910)
Kipling, Rudyard. Rewards and Fairies. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/rewards-and-fairies.
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