Unknown author 4 hr 46 min read

Kneeling through the night in a cold chapel, the Young Lovell breaks his vow at dawn, and finds himself drawn into a medieval tale of enchantment, temptation, and the uncanny.

Ford Madox Ford's 1913 novel is an atmospheric historical fantasy-romance. Rich, dreamlike, superbly crafted. Read it for a haunting medieval tale by a modernist master, a knight caught between chivalric duty and supernatural seduction on the wild Northumberland border, told in Ford's subtle, luminous prose, blending history with the fairy and the strange.

In its time

Published in 1913, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 46 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).