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An edition of At the Back of the North Wind (1882)

At the back of the North Wind

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  • ★★★★ 4.33 ·
  • 3 Ratings
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  • 7 Have read

Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London, has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful Lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.

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Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Pages
346

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Subjects
Accessible book, Fairy tales, Children's fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Death, fiction, Love, fiction, Magic, fiction, London (england), fiction, Great britain, history, 19th century, fiction, Social problems, fiction, Fiction, general

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At the back of the North Wind
2009, Folio Society
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2008, Project Gutenberg
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2001, Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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1986, New American Library
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1979, D.C. Cook
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1963, Macmillan Company
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At the Back of the North Wind
1947-06, Macmillan Company
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At the Back of the North Wind
1919, David McKay
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1919, D. McKay
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At the Back of the North Wind
1909, J.B. Lippincott Company
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER I. THE HAY-LOFT
II. THE LAWN
III. OLD DIAMOND
IV. NORTH WIND
V. THE SUMMER-HOUSE
VI. OUT IN THE STORM
VII. THE CATHEDRAL
VIII. THE EAST WINDOW
IX. HOW DIAMOND GOT TO THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
X. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND
XI. HOW DIAMOND GOT HOME AGAIN
XII. WHO MET DIAMOND AT SANDWICH
XIII. THE SEASIDE
XIV. OLD DIAMOND
XV. THE MEWS
XVI. DIAMOND MAKES A BEGINNING
XVII. DIAMOND GOES ON
XVIII. THE DRUNKEN CABMAN
XIX. DIAMOND'S FRIENDS
XX. DIAMOND LEARNS TO READ
XXI. SAL'S NANNY
XXII. MR. RAYMOND'S RIDDLE
XXIII. THE EARLY BIRD
XXIV. ANOTHER EARLY BIRD
XXV. DIAMOND'S DREAM
XXVI. DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT
XXVII. THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
XXVIII. LITTLE DAYLIGHT
XXIX. RUBY
XXX. NANNY'S DREAM
XXXI. THE NORTH WIND DOTH BLOW
XXXII. DIAMOND AND RUBY
XXXIII. THE PROSPECT BRIGHTENS
XXXIV. IN THE COUNTRY
XXXV. I MAKE DIAMOND'S ACQUAINTANCE
XXXVI. DIAMOND QUESTIONS NORTH WIND
XXXVII. ONCE MORE
XXXVIII. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND.

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New York
Series
Everyman's library children's classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ8.M1754 At 2001, PZ8.M1754At 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
346 p. :
Number of pages
346

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3972254M
ISBN 10
0375413359
LCCN
2001281452
OCLC/WorldCat
48890405
Library Thing
4090
Goodreads
269713

Work Description

The adventures of a little boy, Diamond, named for his father's favorite horse, as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.

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I HAVE been asked to tell you about the back of the North Wind.
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