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At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind

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.


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“Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.”

Source: At the Back of the North Wind

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“Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him!”

just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.
At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

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