However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. 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. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. ★The book tells the story of a young boy named Diamond. The book includes the fairy tale Little Daylight, which has been pulled out as an independent work, or separately, added to other collections of his fairy tales.★ Diamond travels together with the mysterious Lady North Wind through the nights. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind.

It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. ★At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book written by Scottish author George MacDonald. Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals.★ The story concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the 'Marble Lady'. ★The story centres on the character Anodos ('pathless', or 'ascent' in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. It was later reprinted in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970.★ ★ A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858.

Phantastes by George MacDonald