Jean Ingelow 2 hr 45 min read

Climbing into a hollow tree, a boy named Jack finds a nest of tiny fairies and carries one, Mopsa, off on a wondrous voyage above the clouds, into a strange fairyland of his own.

Jean Ingelow's 1869 novel is a beloved Victorian children's fantasy, dreamlike and inventive in the tradition of Carroll and MacDonald. Charming, imaginative, enduring. Read it for a classic fairy journey of a boy and his fairy companion through a wonderland all their own.

In its time

Published in 1869, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

2 hr 45 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).