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Kipling's Puck of Pout's Hill
Kipling's Puck of Pout's Hill The W ind in the Willows shares with contemporary children's books are a faith in the rural—and in rural England, especially—and an uncomfortable awareness of threats to the status quo. (The book that best sums up these preoccupations is Kipling's Puck of Pout's Hill, published in 1906.) http://www.webdaytona.com Nor is this a book about animals, despite the ink that has been spilt attempting to link it to animal fictions. For virtually all of the time the characters are, as Margaret Blount puts it, 'Olympians, middle-aged men. . . doing nothing as becomes animals, http://www.solecolor.com yet very much involved with the real world .. . For animals, read chaps.'6 Fred Inglis regards the heroes as 'the model men of private means w hom its readers once hoped to become... The four friends translate readily into the heroes of John Buchan and Sapper [and] P. G. Wodchousc.'7 Of course, as Roger Sale noted, the characters are more than chaps: 'It will not do to say that they are human beings, because G rahame's fantasy depends on his being able to. . . http://www.easylulu.com not give them an age, a biography, a past'.* Thus they are partly creatures of fable, unencumbered by at least some of the complexities attached to human life (such as servants and except in Otter's case relatives), and this enables them to be simultaneously univcrsals and many-layered individuals.