At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated Edition). George MacDonald

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Название At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated Edition)
Автор произведения George MacDonald
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       George MacDonald

      At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated Edition)

      Children's Classic Fantasy Novel

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-7583-788-2

      Table of Contents

       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

      CHAPTER I.

       THE HAY-LOFT

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      I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there.

      He lived in a low room over a coach-house; and that was not by any means at the back of the north wind, as his mother very well knew. For one side of the room was built only of boards, and the boards were so old that you might run a penknife through into the north wind. And then let them settle between them which was the sharper! I know that when you pulled it out again the wind would be after it like a cat after a mouse, and you would know soon enough you were not at the back of the north wind. Still, this room was not very cold, except when the north wind blew stronger than usual: the room I have to do with now was always cold, except in summer, when the sun took the matter into his own hands. Indeed, I am not sure whether I ought to call it a room at all; for it was just a loft where they kept hay and straw and oats for the horses.

      And when little Diamond—but stop: I must tell you that his father, who was a coachman, had named him after a favourite horse, and his mother had had no objection:—when little Diamond, then, lay there in bed, he could hear the horses under him munching away in the dark, or moving sleepily in their dreams. For Diamond's father had built him a bed in the loft