Wonder

Rewards and Fairies

by Rudyard Kipling

Puck returns in 1910 with more of Dan and Una’s visitors from the English past, among them Queen Elizabeth, a flint-worker of the Stone Age and the herbalist Nicholas Culpeper. Each story has a poem before and after it, and one of them is “If—”, printed here and soon one of the most quoted poems in English. Kipling said he wrote it with his friend Leander Starr Jameson in mind.

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Reading time

About 4 hr 55 min

Where to find it

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Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #556. In the public domain in the United States.