Frances Hodgson Burnett 26 min read

The tall, beautiful King Amor comes down from his mountain crag to reign over a gloomy, hate-ridden land, and sets his people a single gentle task: to fill the country with the Blue Flower.

Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1909 book, by the author of 'The Secret Garden,' is a lovely allegorical fairy tale. Charming, gentle, warmly moral. Read it for a tender parable of a wise young king who heals a bitter kingdom not by force but by giving his people beauty to tend, from a beloved storyteller.

In its time

Published in 1909, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

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