Victorian fantasy classic
1871
At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald
9 h 21 min
A coachman's boy is carried over the London rooftops by the North Wind, and comes home to a harder world. One of the books where modern English fantasy begins.
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Victorian fantasy classic
1871
George MacDonald
9 h 21 min
A coachman's boy is carried over the London rooftops by the North Wind, and comes home to a harder world. One of the books where modern English fantasy begins.
Garden diary & comedy of manners
1898
Elizabeth von Arnim
5 h 10 min · Elizabeth #1
A year in a neglected Pomeranian garden, with tea-roses planted against all authority and a husband set down only as the Man of Wrath.
Romantic novel
1926
L. M. Montgomery
8 h 6 min
Told she has a year to live, Valancy Stirling walks out of her mother's house and goes in for realities. Montgomery's rare novel for adults.
American regional classic
1896
Sarah Orne Jewett
4 h 25 min
A summer lodger in a Maine fishing village, the herb-gatherer Mrs. Todd, and a world where nothing is raised above speaking voice.
Edwardian social novel
1901
Frances Hodgson Burnett
9 h 6 min
Penniless, obliging Emily Fox-Seton is asked a question on the heath, and a Cinderella story cools into something colder.
Garden diary
1899
Elizabeth von Arnim
4 h 13 min · Elizabeth #2
She announces a summer entirely alone with her garden; the Man of Wrath taps the barometer and waits for rain.
Pastoral novel
1872
Thomas Hardy
6 h 36 min
The Mellstock quire loses its treble to a lit window on Christmas Eve, and a village church's music plays its last season.
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