At the Back of the North Wind
by George MacDonald
The magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor carriage driver who is swept away by the North Wind — a long, loose-haired, sparkling, mother-like soul — and his life turns into a brief glimpse of a beautiful country — behind the north wind. It combines the mid-19th-century Dickensian attitude of England to the working class with the invention of the etheric landscape. More than a century after it was written, George MacDonald's Behind the North Wind continues to engage readers with its allegorical interpretation of life and death. The great Christian writer C. S. Lewis, who worked through the generations, called MacDonald "the greatest genius of his kind." Find out for yourself what impressed Lewis and countless readers so much.
