Julian Hawthorne 38 min read

A princess and two young princes, a faithful guardian named Tom, and the wicked goblin Rumpty-Dudget in his tower, a full-blooded fairy tale of enchantment, peril, and rescue.

Julian Hawthorne's 1924 book, by the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, is a warm, old-fashioned children's fantasy. Charming, magical, gently moral. Read it for a classic storybook adventure of a diamond water-drop, a golden ivy-seed, and a brave rescue from a goblin's tower.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

38 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

George Hood