The book tells the story of a young boy named Diamond. He is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. His family is very poor, and he sleeps over the stables where the horses are kept.
One night, he is visited by North Wind, who is a beautiful woman, a breeze, or a storm, as she chooses. Diamond befriends the North Wind She lets him fly with her, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad, finally leads to something good.
‘At the Back of the North Wind’ is a children’s book written by George MacDonald. There is also a ‘story within a story’ in this book, which is worth reading on its own. It was serialized in the children’s magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871.
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