At the Back of the North Wind

Young Diamond is the son of a coachman and lives in a drafty coach house. While filling the holes in the wall with hay to stop the wind coming through Diamond angers the North Wind who wants her "window". Becoming friends, the North Wind takes Diamond adventuring to places he could never have dreamed of, but also seems to get up to much mischief. This edition features 115 illustrations taken from several early editions of this timeless tale.

George MacDonald wrote over fifty books and collections of poems, and was a contemporary and friend of Lewis Carroll and other well-known writers of the second half of the 1800s. He is principally remembered for his children's books, the most famous of which are included in this volume. At the Back of the North Wind, and The Princess and the Goblin first appeared in the magazine Good Words for the Young, and were then published in 1870 and 1871, respectively. The Princess and Curdie did not appear in book form until 1882.