George MacDonald 1 hr 8 min read

The Queen of Fairyland, bored by her too-well-behaved subjects, has two mortal children brought to her court, with cross-purposes all around.

George MacDonald's 1867 pair of fairy tales blends whimsy and moral depth in the manner that shaped Lewis and Tolkien, sending mortals into a Faerie of graceful mischief and genuine peril. Gentle, luminous Victorian fantasy. Read it for foundational literary fairy tales from one of the genre's great originators.

In its time

Published in 1867, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

1 hr 8 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).