Jane G. Austin 1 hr 36 min read

Six fairy tales for children, Prince Rudolf's Flower, König Tolv's Bride, the Frost-Maiden, the Cave of the Winds, from mid-nineteenth-century America.

Jane G. Austin's 1859 collection offers imaginative, Northern-flavored fairy stories in the sentimental storybook manner of its day. Charming, illustrated period juvenile fantasy. Read it for a sweet antebellum garland of princes, frost-maidens, and undersea castles, dreamed for young readers.

In its time

Published in 1859, during the 1850s, fairy tale and moral fantasy for a mass reading public; the sensation novel stirs.

Reading it

1 hr 36 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Hammatt Billings