Frederik van Eeden ~11 hr read

In an old house with a vast, wondrous garden that is a whole world to him, Little Johannes meets a fairy named Windekind and sets out on a wistful quest for the great secret of life.

Frederik van Eeden's 1907 novel ('De kleine Johannes') is a beloved Dutch classic of lyrical fantasy. Tender, philosophical, dreamlike. Read it for a luminous fairy tale for grown children, a boy's search for meaning through a world of nature-spirits, love, and loss, from a masterwork of Dutch literature.

In its time

Published in 1907, during the 1900s, the scientific romance.

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).