Padraic Colum 3 hr 56 min read

The wild eldest son of King Connal of Ireland sets out through a land of enchanters and spae-women, the Sword of Light and the House of Crom Duv, a great weaving of Irish folk-tales.

Padraic Colum's 1916 novel is a beloved classic of children's fantasy, gathering Irish folklore into a single grand adventure. Lyrical, magical, richly told. Read it for a masterwork of the Celtic tradition, a prince's quest through interlocking wonder-tales, in the luminous voice of a great Irish poet.

In its time

Published in 1916, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 56 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).