Edmond Haraucourt ~7 hr read

The story of Prince Dieudonat is a very beautiful story, and probably a tissue of lies, for the strange circumstances of his birth defy all reason and every date.

Edmond Haraucourt's 1912 French novel is a wry, fabulous conte-philosophique about a prince gifted with a magical power, told with knowing irony. Elegant, ironic French literary fantasy. Read it for a sophisticated fairy-tale-for-adults, sceptical and enchanting at once.

In its time

Published in 1912, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).