Horace Elisha Scudder 2 hr 17 min read

Seven little people who have lived quietly with the author for years, entertaining his young friends with tales from under the sea, from palaces and desert islands, now step out into the world.

Horace E. Scudder's 1862 collection is a warm, whimsical book of Victorian fairy tales for children. Charming, gentle, delightfully old-fashioned. Read it for a cozy garland of nineteenth-century wonder-stories, spun by a beloved children's author to be read aloud by the fireside.

In its time

Published in 1862, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

2 hr 17 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).