At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated)

At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated)

At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated)

At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated)

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Overview

At the Back of the North Wind 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781663557100
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date: 08/27/2020
Series: Classic Books for Children , #60
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)
Age Range: 6 - 8 Years

About the Author

About The Author
George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. 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."
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