C. S. Guild 1 hr 45 min read

Given a pair of fairy spectacles, a child sees the world, and the good and true within it, as it really is.

C. S. Guild's 1857 children's book, a follow-up to the popular 'Violet,' offers a gentle moral fairy tale in the simple, nature-loving style prized by its Victorian audience. A charming period piece of American juvenile fantasy. Read it for the sweet, improving make-believe of a mid-nineteenth-century nursery classic.

In its time

Published in 1857, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

1 hr 45 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).