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At the Back of the North Wind
George Macdonald
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Description for At the Back of the North Wind
hardcover. Illustrator(s): Hughes, Arthur. Series: Everyman's Library Children's Classics. Num Pages: 328 pages, 75 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: YFA; YFJ. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 212 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales. But these were fairy tales with a difference. At the Back of the North Wind, the first to be published, became a Victorian favourite and marked something of a milestone in children's fiction. While owing a debt to Hans Andersen, Dickens and Kingsley, MacDonald created a distinctive imaginary world existing in parallel with the grim social realities of mid-19th-century England. "A fairy tale is not al allegory," he once remarked. It is, of course, ... Read more
With 13 children of his own clamouring for bedtime stories it isn't surprising that author George MacDonald discovered he had a gift for composing fairy tales. But these were fairy tales with a difference. At the Back of the North Wind, the first to be published, became a Victorian favourite and marked something of a milestone in children's fiction. While owing a debt to Hans Andersen, Dickens and Kingsley, MacDonald created a distinctive imaginary world existing in parallel with the grim social realities of mid-19th-century England. "A fairy tale is not al allegory," he once remarked. It is, of course, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Childrens Classics
Condition
New
Series
Everyman's Library Children's Classics
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857155099
SKU
9781857155099
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