Julian Hawthorne 3 hr 21 min read

The golden pledge, the golden dwarf, the magic eye, and a grand transformation scene, a garland of whimsical fairy tales of royalty and enchantment for children.

Julian Hawthorne's 1880 collection gathers fanciful fairy tales for the young. Charming, inventive, of its era. Read it for a genial Victorian storybook from the son of Nathaniel Hawthorne, tales of princes, dwarfs, talismans, and transformations, told with theatrical flourish and warmth, in the pantomime-flavored tradition of the artistic children's fairy tale.

In its time

Published in 1880, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 21 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).