Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind with 76 Original Illustrations written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book written by Scottish author George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights. The book includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, which has been pulled out as an independent work, or separately, added to other collections of his fairy tales.The book tells the story of a young boy named Diamond. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft (also his bedroom) wall to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him fly with her, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good. The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MACDONALD and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book written by Scottish author George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights. The book includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, which has been pulled out as an independent work, or separately, added to other collections of his fairy tales.
Download or read book At the Back of The North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Description Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for closing her "window" into his room. Thus begins their friendship. Spirited away by the North Wind, Diamond embarks on a series of adventures both near to and far from his home. His pure heart and his simple, loving spirit guide him as he journeys to the back of the North Wind and home again. Reviews "All metaphysic, theology, philosophy is as words signifying nothing compared to MacDonald's rendering of this tale. Part fairy story, part dream, poetry, apprehended here is a meaning of life and love such as you will not find in slmost any other book. The style is off-putting to some: tales within tales, a song here, a nursery rhyme there. But it is the story of Diamond, an angel child.who finds sanctification at the back of the north wind. Do you have anxiety justifying the trouble and triumph of life? Here in this book is an answer to ponder for a lifetime. " " I like George MacDonald's books very much, and this particular one because of its beautiful and dreamlike way to face life. "Some children are profound in metaphysics", he says at some point. This book contains also the fairy tale "Little Daylight", inspired in the Sleeping Beauty. My son enjoyed the story while it was happening, but didn't like the ending. He wants Diamond to return again from the Back of the North Wind." About Author George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master" "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book written by Scottish author George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights. The book includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, which has been pulled out as an independent work, or separately, added to other collections of his fairy tales.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.He lived in a low room over a coach-house; and that was not by any means at the back of the north wind, as his mother very well knew. For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into the north wind. And then let them settle between them which was the sharper! I know that when you pulled it out again the wind would be after it like a cat after a mouse, and you would know soon enough you were not at the back of the north wind. Still, this room was not very cold, except when the north wind blew stronger than usual: the room I have to do with now was always cold, except in summer, when the sun took the matter into his own hands. Indeed, I am not sure whether I ought to call it a room at all; for it was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses.And when little Diamond-but stop: I must tell you that his father, who was a coachman, had named him after a favourite horse, and his mother had had no objection: -when little Diamond, then, lay there in bed, he could hear the horses under him munching away in the dark, or moving sleepily in their dreams. For Diamond's father had built him a bed in the loft with boards all round it, because they had so little room in their own end over the coach-house; and Diamond's father put old Diamond in the stall under the bed, because he was a quiet horse, and did not go to sleep standing, but lay down like a reasonable creature. But, although he was a surprisingly reasonable creature, yet, when young Diamond woke in the middle of the night, and felt the bed shaking in the blasts of the north wind, he could not help wondering whether, if the wind should blow the house down, and he were to fall through into the manger, old Diamond mightn't eat him up before he knew him in his night-gown. And although old Diamond was very quiet all night long, yet when he woke he got up like an earthquake, and then young Diamond knew what o'clock it was, or at least what was to be done next, which was-to go to sleep again as fast as he could
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND - GEORGE MACDONALD Diamond, son of a poor coachman, is swept away by the North Wind -- a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country -- at the back of the north wind. This Victorian fairy tale has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years, and combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond, son of a poor coachman, is swept away by the North Wind - a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country - at the back of the north wind. This Victorian fairy tale has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years, and combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by Sheba Blake Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Back of the North Wind is a children's story about a good, sweet boy called Diamond who rides the North Wind as she travels her familiar routes. They do good and wreak havoc, though everything seems to work towards a happy end.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book tells the story of a young boy named Diamond. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft (also his bedroom) wall to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him fly with her, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good. The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind With Illustrations Etc written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Victorian fairy tale has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years, and combines Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape. Diamond, son of a poor coachman, is swept away by the North Wind -- a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country -- at the back of the north wind.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of a little boy, named for his father's favorite horse, as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George Mac Donald and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2001-10-16 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years: the magical story of Diamond, the son of a poor coachman, who is swept away by the North Wind–a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair–and whose life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country “at the back of the north wind.” It combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape, and is published here alongside Arthur Hughes’s handsome illustrations from the original 1871 edition.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the mystical travels of Diamond, a coachman's son, through distant lands and strange events while riding on the back of the beautiful North Wind.
Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond, son of a poor coachman, is swept away by the North Wind -- a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair. His life is transformed by a brief glimpse of the beautiful country -- at the back of the north wind.
