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At the Back of the North Wind

by George MacDonald

Diamond, a coachman’s son in London, is carried through the night by North Wind, who appears as a vast and beautiful woman. MacDonald writes about poverty, kindness and death without flinching; it is a strange, luminous book.

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Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 5 hr 55 min
Where to find it
The attic behind the curious doors
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #225. In the public domain in the United States.

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