Legend

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

by William Morris

A prince’s son survives a usurped kingdom by growing up disguised as a woodcutter’s child, in an invented medieval world built purely for the pleasure of building it. Morris wrote this kind of tale before anyone had thought to call the genre fantasy. Tolkien read him closely; you can feel the family resemblance.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hr 15 min

Where to find it

On the Legend shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #234. In the public domain in the United States.