A little boy is carried on magical journeys by the beautiful, terrible North Wind, who is also death. MacDonald's tender, mystical children's fantasy.
Books mentioned in At the Back of the North Wind (2)
Kilmeny by James Hogg: “The peasant girl--Kilmeny was her name--could not report such grand things as Durante, for, as the shepherd says, telling her story as I tell Diamond's--”
Sleeping Beauty: “I cannot myself help thinking that he was somewhat indebted for this one to the old story of The Sleeping Beauty.”