Book cover for At the Back of the North Wind by George Macdonald

At the Back of the North Wind

1998 Released
114 Pages
5-6 Hours
★ 4.0 6,306 ratings
Audiobook Unavailable
Tor ClassicsISBN 9781466804050

The classic children's fantasy adventure about a young boy's ability to face adversity with courage and faith. Listen hard . . . you can hear magic in the wind! Diamond lives in a hayloft. But that was all right with him. He loves to snuggle up to the horses at night and listen to them snore away. Sometimes he can even hear the stars twinkling in the sky. One night Diamond is visited by a beautiful fairy with long flowing hair. She calls herself North Wind, and she lives in the enchanted land far, far away. Best of all, she has come to take Diamond back with her—back to the land at the back of the North Wind. Adored by millions of young readers since its first publication in 1871, George MacDonald's magical tale continues to delight.

George Macdonald

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a popular Scottish lecturer and writer of novels, poetry, and fairy tales. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London. W. H. Auden called him "one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century."

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