Waldemar Bonsels 3 hr 9 min read

A lyrical journey into the tiny world of a forest meadow, its flowers, insects, and creatures, and the God glimpsed within all of it.

Waldemar Bonsels's 1919 book, by the author of 'Maya the Bee,' is a poetic nature-fantasy of the small living world. Lyrical, reverent, gently mystical. Read it for a tender German classic that finds wonder and the divine among the flowers, beetles, and beasts of the wood.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 9 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Margarete Schreiber