Walter De la Mare 2 hr 22 min read

A dreamer rides his horse ten leagues beyond the world's end into the strange country of Romance, where he meets Lucy Gray, Jane Eyre, and other immortal figures of literature.

Walter de la Mare's 1904 novel is a haunting, lyrical fantasy journey through the landscapes of English poetry and fiction. Exquisite, dreamlike, deeply literary. Read it for a beautiful reverie in which the beloved characters of books live on in a twilight country of the imagination.

In its time

Published in 1904, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

2 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).