Coningsby Dawson 40 min read

The robins tell it every Christmas Eve: the story of the Man and the Woman after the golden gates of Eden closed behind them forever.

Coningsby Dawson's 1921 fantasy spins a gentle, illustrated Christmas legend from the aftermath of the expulsion from paradise. A warm, reverent period piece of holiday fantasy. Read it for a tender seasonal fable, told in the voice of the birds beneath the Christmas holly.

In its time

Published in 1921, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

40 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Eugene Francis Savage