Amélie Rives 2 hr 17 min read

Three atmospheric historical tales of old England from a celebrated Gilded Age Virginian writer.

Amélie Rives's 1888 collection gathers 'A Brother to Dragons' and companion stories first published in the Atlantic and Harper's, evoking the England of 1586 and after in richly wrought archaic prose. A period piece of romantic historical fiction from a once-sensational Southern author. Read it for lush, old-fashioned storytelling that conjures the distant past with genuine literary craft.

In its time

Published in 1888, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

2 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).