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.’