![]() ![]() While Diamond learns much about life through his travels with North Wind, his visit to the country at her back proves to be transformative. She sends them off to the Kings court where a great task awaits them, and they find a strange, lovable companion to help them. As a poor cabbie and his wife eke out a meager existence in Victorian London, their little boy, Diamondnamed after his father’s horseis befriended by the North Wind. In the secret turret sits spinning Irene's beautiful, ageless great-great grandmother only known to the princess and Curdie. "The Princess and the Goblin: and its sequel are the stories of Princess Irene and the minor's son Curdie, who rescues her from the goblin kingdom beneath the wild mountains where her father's ancient castle. poverty threatens the cab driver's family and the horses are starving but Diamond refuses to be separated from them until eventually they reach the back of the North Wind." ![]() "At The Back of the North Wind: tells the story of Diamond the cab horse and Diamond the boy who lives above his stable and who is whisked off over cities and castles to the mountains by the beautiful North Wind herself. This fantasy is about a boy named Diamond who travels through the night with the mysterious Lady North Wind. ![]() Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with small chips and tears, with one slightly larger tear to top front (see photographs) George MacDonald wrote this childrens book in 1871. Octopus Books, 1979, ISBN 0706410548, illustrated end-papers, black and white illustrations in text, hardcover, dust-jacket ![]() Illustrated by Arthur Hughes after Dalziel Three books in one (Omnibus) complete and unabridged At the Back of the North Wind : The Princess and the Goblin : The Princess and Curdie ![]()
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