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At the Back of the North Wind: A Victorian Fairy Tale of Faith, Childhood, and the Unseen World
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515435624
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A poor coachman's son is swept into the company of the mysterious North Wind, whose terrible beauty leads him through wonder, sorrow, danger, and consolation. Young Diamond lives above the stables and has little reason to expect marvels, until the North Wind comes to him as a powerful, womanly presence and carries him into a world where ordinary London life opens onto spiritual mystery. Through storms, visions, poverty, kindness, illness, and dreams, Diamond learns that what frightens us may also shelter us, and that sorrow may hide a deeper mercy.
George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind is one of the great Victorian works of spiritual fantasy for children, but it is not merely a children's adventure. Like MacDonald's best fairy tales, it uses fantasy as a way of approaching questions that ordinary realism cannot easily hold: death, innocence, suffering, faith, love, and the unseen order behind the visible world. Its Christian imagination is present throughout, but it works through symbol, story, and feeling rather than sermon.
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