Georg Ebers 52 min read

Once there was a country lovelier than all others, its duke's castle beside a lake bluer than indigo, where a knight once found only waste fields, broken statues, and vanished splendor.

Georg Ebers's 1895 book is a graceful literary fairy tale by a distinguished German novelist and Egyptologist. Lyrical, imaginative, tenderly told. Read it for a lovely storybook fantasy of enchantment and a lost golden age, spun with old-world charm by a scholar-novelist in a gentler key.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

52 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).