
At the Back of the North Wind
This new edition of George MacDonald's 1871 classic is presented and introduced as Volume 10 in The Cullen Collection by Michael Phillips.Historically, At the Back of the North Wind ranks as George MacDonald’s most well-known and enduring book, the haunting tale of little Diamond, a simple London cabman’s son, and his dreamy encounters with the mysterious, wise, powerful, comforting, and occasionally frightening lady known as North Wind. Their eerie nighttime adventures have captivated readers young and old ever since the book’s publication in 1871.Many point to At the Back of the North Wind as possibly the greatest of MacDonald's attempts to unite miracle, reality, and imagination. So smoothly are realism and fantasy interwoven that as we pass imperceptibly from one world to the other, the two fuse into one. Diamond's imagination has become real. North Wind’s cryptic reflection about the far-off song strikes deep into the heart with the compelling mystery inherent in all MacDonald’s