Margaret Arndt 3 hr 31 min read

Fairy stories learned in English lanes and German forests, introduced by G. K. Chesterton himself and dedicated to the author's own children.

Margaret Arndt's 1910 collection blends German woodland folklore with an English storyteller's touch, complete with a Chesterton introduction. Warm, atmospheric, of its era. Read it for gentle forest fairy tales gathered between two countries, framed by one of literature's great essayists.

In its time

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

Reading it

3 hr 31 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).