Justin H. McCarthy 4 hr 28 min read

In an enchanted Wonder-Wood of godlike forms and Athenian breezes, a legend of the Long Ago unfolds, of a dryad, a mystic rose, and the timeless power of love among the ancient trees.

Justin H. McCarthy's 1905 novel is a lyrical mythological fantasy. Graceful, dreamlike, romantic. Read it for a beautifully written classical fantasy-romance steeped in Greek myth and the spirit of the woods, where love and enchantment intertwine in a golden Arcadian world, told in the ornate, poetic style of the fin-de-siècle.

In its time

Published in 1905, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

4 hr 28 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).