THE ATHENAEUMA Prisoner in FairylandAlgernon Blackwood
Fantasy
A Prisoner in Fairyland
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA rich man who has forgotten how to dream goes back to the village of his childhood, and finds the children there are weaving a net of starlight to catch the grown-ups. Algernon Blackwood published it in 1913, and Edward Elgar wrote the music for The Starlight Express, the play made from it, in 1915. In the end it is the grown-ups who need rescuing.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 9 hr 15 min
- Where to find it
- The Deep Wood
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #6021. In the public domain in the United States.