At the Back of the North Wind
A coachman's son encounters the North Wind in a story that moves between London hardship and imaginative journeys.
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- Length
- 38 chapters
- Reading time
- About 6 hr 11 min
- Words
- 88,282
Contents
- Chapter 1: The Hayloft14 min
- Chapter 2: The Lawn10 min
- Chapter 3: Old Diamond12 min
- Chapter 4: North Wind13 min
- Chapter 5: The Summerhouse13 min
- Chapter 6: Out in the Storm8 min
- Chapter 7: The Cathedral11 min
- Chapter 8: The East Window5 min
- Chapter 9: How Diamond Got to the Back of the North Wind20 min
- Chapter 10: At the Back of the North Wind6 min
- Chapter 11: How Diamond Got Home Again8 min
- Chapter 12: Who Met Diamond at Sandwich6 min
- Chapter 13: The Seaside11 min
- Chapter 14: Old Diamond3 min
- Chapter 15: The Mews4 min
- Chapter 16: Diamond Makes a Beginning13 min
- Chapter 17: Diamond Goes On10 min
- Chapter 18: The Drunken Cabman8 min
- Chapter 19: Diamond’s Friends7 min
- Chapter 20: Diamond Learns to Read7 min
- Chapter 21: Sal’s Nanny9 min
- Chapter 22: Mr. Raymond’s Riddle4 min
- Chapter 23: The Early Bird3 min
- Chapter 24: Another Early Bird12 min
- Chapter 25: Diamond’s Dream14 min
- Chapter 26: Diamond Takes a Fare the Wrong Way Right9 min
- Chapter 27: The Children’s Hospital6 min
- Chapter 28: Little Daylight28 min
- Chapter 29: Ruby8 min
- Chapter 30: Nanny’s Dream22 min
- Chapter 31: The North Wind Doth Blow4 min
- Chapter 32: Diamond and Ruby9 min
- Chapter 33: The Prospect Brightens11 min
- Chapter 34: In the Country6 min
- Chapter 35: I Make Diamond’s Acquaintance14 min
- Chapter 36: Diamond Questions North Wind14 min
- Chapter 37: Once More7 min
- Chapter 38: At the Back of the North Wind3 min