Rudyard Kipling is a world-renowned writer, poet, and short story writer, the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tales of Old England (compiled from the collections Puck of the Fairy Hills and The Fairy Gifts), along with The Jungle Book, are among the writer's most famous works. Magical stories about elves and spirits in this book are intertwined with captivating stories that present almost the entire history of England: the Stone Age, the period of Roman rule, the defeat of the Invincible Armada, the war with Napoleon... And what a variety of characters - ancient shepherds and Roman soldiers, monks and Vikings, kings and smugglers, Indians and pirates... Kipling strives to show great historical events against the backdrop of his native Sussex region and remind us how close history comes to the home of the ordinary person; The writer makes the reader think about the eternal questions that worry us to this day - about happiness and the meaning of life, about duty and destiny.