At the Back of the North Wind

1871

George MacDonald's 1871 story of Diamond, the London cab-driver's son who travels with the North Wind by night and carries her calm through the daytime world. A Victorian fairy story that moves between the streets of London and the country at the back of the wind.

Chapter I The Hay-Loft
Chapter II The Lawn
Chapter III Old Diamond
Chapter IV North Wind
Chapter V The Summer-House
Chapter VI Out in the Storm
Chapter VII The Cathedral
Chapter VIII The East Window
Chapter IX How Diamond Got to the Back of the North Wind
Chapter X At the Back of the North Wind
Chapter XI How Diamond Got Home Again
Chapter XII Who Met Diamond at Sandwich
Chapter XIII The Seaside
Chapter XIV Old Diamond
Chapter XV The Mews
Chapter XVI Diamond Makes a Beginning
Chapter XVII Diamond Goes On
Chapter XVIII The Drunken Cabman
Chapter XIX Diamond's Friends
Chapter XX Diamond Learns to Read
Chapter XXI Sal's Nanny
Chapter XXII Mr. Raymond's Riddle
Chapter XXIII The Early Bird
Chapter XXIV Another Early Bird
Chapter XXV Diamond's Dream
Chapter XXVI Diamond Takes a Fare the Wrong Way Right
Chapter XXVII The Children's Hospital
Chapter XXVIII Little Daylight
Chapter XXIX Ruby
Chapter XXX Nanny's Dream
Chapter XXXI The North Wind Doth Blow
Chapter XXXII Diamond and Ruby
Chapter XXXIII The Prospect Brightens
Chapter XXXIV In the Country
Chapter XXXV I Make Diamond's Acquaintance
Chapter XXXVI Diamond Questions North Wind
Chapter XXXVII Once More
Chapter XXXVIII At the Back of the North Wind