Charlotte Brontë 3 hr 16 min read

Twelve adventurers sail to a far African shore and found a kingdom, the earliest imaginings of the invented world of Glass Town and Angria, written by a young genius.

Charlotte Brontë's juvenilia, collected 1925, gathers the fantastical early tales of the Brontë children's imaginary worlds. Vivid, precocious, fascinating. Read it for a remarkable window into literary genius in the making, the teenage Charlotte Brontë's romances of the invented Glass Town Federation, the shared fantasy saga that shaped one of England's greatest novelists.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

3 hr 16 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).