Padraic Colum 1 hr 40 min read

Young Eean is apprenticed to the enchanter Zabulun, and sets out through a world of magic and myth, the horses of King Manus, and wonders drawn from the deep well of old legend.

Padraic Colum's 1920 book is a lyrical, myth-steeped fantasy for children by a distinguished Irish poet. Beautiful, dreamlike, richly told. Read it for a graceful weaving of folklore and enchantment, where a boy's apprenticeship to a wizard carries him through tale after wondrous tale, in luminous prose.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 40 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Dugald Stewart Walker