A Victorian fairy tale that has enchanted readers for more than a hundred years:
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." It combines a Dickensian regard for the working class of
mid-19th-century England with the invention of an ethereal landscape, and is
published here alongside Arthur Hughes's handsome illustrations from the
original 1871 edition.