Ford Madox Ford 1 hr 47 min read

Long before Egypt rose to power, an old king who founded his own kingdom nears the end of his nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year reign, and leaves his daughter to the guardianship of a Brown Owl.

Ford Madox Ford's 1891 book, written when the great novelist was just eighteen, is a charming children's fairy story. Whimsical, tender, gracefully told. Read it for the earliest work of a literary master, a princess, a wicked chancellor, and a magical owl guardian, in a warm and imaginative fairy tale.

In its time

Published in 1891, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 47 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Ford Madox Brown