Cover of How joy was found by Isobel Wylie Hutchison

How joy was found by Isobel Wylie Hutchison

Built on an old Highland folk-tale, this allegory of Faith follows the search for Joy through the enchanted landscapes of Celtic legend.

First published 1917 1910s English Fantasy

Isobel Wylie Hutchison's 1917 book reworks a Scottish folk story into a lyrical allegorical fantasy. Gentle, poetic, nature-steeped. Read it for a tender Highland fairy-tale allegory, rich with the mist and magic of the Celtic tradition.

In its time
Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.
Reading it
2 hr 41 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

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