George MacDonald ~6 hr read

A poor coach-house boy named Diamond befriends the mysterious, beautiful North Wind, who carries him on journeys between our world and the land beyond death.

George MacDonald's 1871 masterpiece blends tender domestic realism with luminous mystical fantasy, as the sickly child Diamond is borne away by a personified North Wind toward a country that is both dream and eternity. A foundational work of children's fantasy that shaped Lewis, Tolkien, and Carroll. Read it for one of the genre's most beautiful and quietly profound books, radiant with wonder and grief.

In its time

Published in 1871, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).