V. M. 34 min read

In a palace where the king's children live in perfect happiness, one strange little girl begins to wonder whether there might be a wider, unhappier world beyond the garden walls.

This 1911 Theosophical fairy tale (by 'V. M.') is a gentle allegorical story for children. Tender, earnest, symbolic. Read it for a quiet parable of compassion and awakening, in which a child's dawning awareness of a world outside her sheltered paradise carries a soft moral lesson, told in the simple language of a fairy tale.

In its time

Published in 1911, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

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