Charles Dickens 18 min read

Fairy Grandmarina gives the Princess Alicia a magic fishbone, to be used but once, at the right moment, and only when she has done her very best without it.

Charles Dickens's 1868 fairy tale, written as if by a child of seven, is a delightful comic fantasy. Charming, funny, tender. Read it for a gem of Victorian nonsense, a hard-pressed royal family, nineteen children, and a wise little princess whose single magic wish must wait until she truly needs it, told with Dickens's sparkling humor.

In its time

Published in 1868, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

18 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).