Ernő Szép 2 hr 10 min read

A Hungarian fairy tale of the once-and-only prince, from a lyrical poet of the early twentieth century.

Ernő Szép's 1913 'The Simple Prince' is a poetic Hungarian fantasy from one of the era's most delicate literary voices, spinning a fairy-tale in the rich Central European storytelling tradition. A charming period piece of literary fantasy. Read it for a lyrical Hungarian fairy tale from a distinctive early-modern writer.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

2 hr 10 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).