At the Back of the North Wind (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)
A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years: the magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor coachman, who is swept away by the North Wind–a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair–and whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful...
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A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years: the magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor coachman, who is swept away by the North Wind–a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair–and whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country “at the back of the north wind.” It combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape, and is published here alongside Arthur Hughes’s handsome illustrations from the original 1871 edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780375413353 (0375413359)
ASIN: 0375413359
Publish date: 2001-10-16
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
bookshelves: published-1871, fantasy, kiddlewinks, winter-20102011, victorian, play-dramatisation Read from December 22 to 23, 2010 Stars Juliet Stevenson, Joss Ackland and Tom Fleming. A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years: the magical story of Diam...
Stars Juliet Stevenson, Joss Ackland and Tom Fleming.
I was bored and thoroughly confused the whole way through this book. I also read it when I was somewhere along the lines of a 9 year old, which may or way not have had something to do with it.
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