King of Romania consort of Ferdinand I Queen Marie 3 hr 21 min read

'Everything about her was white, glistening and shining', a fairy tale of a man who cannot leave the woman he loves, and the spirit-like being from another world who draws him on.

Queen Marie of Romania's 1915 book, gorgeously illustrated by Edmund Dulac, is a lyrical literary fairy tale. Dreamlike, romantic, beautifully wrought. Read it for a jewel of Edwardian fantasy, a royal author's tender allegory of love, dreams, and longing, set amid Dulac's exquisite illustrations.

In its time

Published in 1915, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Edmund Dulac