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At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald · 1871

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Chapters

A long one: read it a chapter a night.

  1. Chapter I. the Hay-Loft
  2. Chapter II. the Lawn
  3. Chapter III. Old Diamond
  4. Chapter IV. North Wind
  5. Chapter V. the Summer-House
  6. Chapter VI. Out in the Storm
  7. Chapter VII. the Cathedral
  8. Chapter VIII. the East Window
  9. Chapter IX. How Diamond Got to the Back of the North Wind
  10. Chapter X. at the Back of the North Wind
  11. Chapter XI. How Diamond Got Home Again
  12. Chapter XII. Who Met Diamond at Sandwich
  13. Chapter XIII. the Seaside
  14. Chapter XIV. Old Diamond
  15. Chapter XV. the Mews
  16. Chapter XVI. Diamond Makes a Beginning
  17. Chapter XVII. Diamond Goes On
  18. Chapter XVIII. the Drunken Cabman
  19. Chapter XIX. Diamond's Friends
  20. Chapter XX. Diamond Learns to Read
  21. Little Boy Blue
  22. Chapter XXI. Sal's Nanny
  23. Chapter XXII. Mr. Raymond's Riddle
  24. Chapter XXIII. the Early Bird
  25. Chapter XXIV. Another Early Bird
  26. The True Story of the Cat and the Fiddle
  27. Chapter XXV. Diamond's Dream
  28. Chapter XXVI. Diamond Takes a Fare the Wrong Way Right
  29. Chapter XXVII. the Children's Hospital
  30. Chapter XXVIII. Little Daylight
  31. Chapter XXIX. Ruby
  32. Chapter XXX. Nanny's Dream
  33. Chapter XXXI. the North Wind Doth Blow
  34. Chapter XXXII. Diamond and Ruby
  35. Chapter XXXIII. the Prospect Brightens
  36. Chapter XXXIV. in the Country
  37. Chapter XXXV. I Make Diamond's Acquaintance
  38. Chapter XXXVI. Diamond Questions North Wind
  39. Chapter XXXVII. Once More
  40. Chapter XXXVIII. at the Back of the North Wind

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