Henry Rogers, a successful London businessman, decides to spend his fortune on a scheme of happiness for poor children, assisted by his faithful secretary Minks. Visiting his cousin’s large family in the Jura, he finds that the Star Cave of his own childhood fancies is alive there, and a starlight network of dream and kindness begins to change everyone it touches.
Blackwood’s gentlest and most whimsical novel, the source of the play The Starlight Express with music by Elgar. Download the free EPUB.