Anatole France 1 hr 28 min read

A prince and a little girl named Honey-Bee are carried off by the fairies, she to the kingdom of the dwarfs, he to the palace of the undines beneath the lake.

Anatole France's 1911 fairy tale, by the great French master of style, is a lovely story of enchantment, courage, and love. Exquisite, wise, gently humorous. Read it for a beautiful literary fairy tale from a Nobel laureate, overflowing with poetic imagination and charm.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

1 hr 28 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Florence Lundborg