Laurence Housman 1 hr 54 min read

Eight white peahens go down to the gate, and only nine come back, the strange opening of a garland of jewel-like fairy tales of princes, sorrows, and enchanted transformations.

Laurence Housman's 1895 collection gathers original literary fairy tales. Lyrical, delicate, beautifully crafted. Read it for exquisite fin-de-siècle wonder-tales from a master of the form (and brother of A. E. Housman), melancholy, richly symbolic stories of princes and magic, told in prose of jewelled beauty, in the great tradition of the artistic fairy tale.

In its time

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

Reading it

1 hr 54 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).