Ford Madox Ford 2 hr 22 min read

Once upon a time, a King reigned over a country as yet undiscovered, a lovely land of green dales and groves, for reasons the reader may learn later on.

Ford Madox Ford's 1892 book, written in his youth as 'Ford H. Madox Hueffer,' is a whimsical children's fairy story. Charming, lyrical, gracefully told. Read it for an early work of a great novelist, a gentle storybook fantasy of kings and eagles and a magical feather, in the delicate manner of the Victorian literary fairy tale.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

2 hr 22 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Ford Madox Brown