Tales of old England

Redyard Kipling is a world -famous writer, poet and novelist, the first Englishman who received the Nobel Prize in literature. “Tales of Old England” (compiled from the collections “Pak from magic hills” and “Fei gifts”), along with the “Jungle Book”, belong to the most famous works of the writer. Magic stories about elves and perfumes in this book are intertwined with fascinating stories in which almost the entire history of England is presented: the Stone Age, and the period of Roman rule, and the defeat of the invincible armada, and the war with Napoleon. And what different characters - ancient shepherds and Roman soldiers, monks and vikings, kings and smugglers, Indians and pirates. Kipling tries to show large historical events against his native Sussek district and recall how the story of an ordinary person comes close to the house, the writer makes the reader think about the eternal issues that excite us to this day, about happiness and meaning of life, about duty and fate