Henry C. McCook ~7 hr read

In Brownieland, the good brownies wage a summer war against King Cobweaver's spider-pixies, a fairy campaign told by a naturalist who knew his real spiders intimately.

Henry C. McCook's 1895 children's fantasy, by an eminent arachnologist, blends whimsical fairy warfare with genuine natural history. Charming, richly illustrated period fantasy. Read it for a delightful storybook battle between brownies and spider-folk, from a scientist who loved his subject.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~7 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).