At the Back of the North Wind

No children’s library is complete without this beautiful hardcover edition of the Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years.

George Macdonald’s timeless novel tells 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.” Published here alongside Arthur Hughes’s ha...