The title story follows Stephen Archer, a suburban London stationer and newsagent with firm opinions about what he will sell, whose religious pride is slowly humbled. Alongside it come The Gifts of the Child Christ, a Christmas story of a lonely little girl in a cold household, and The History of Photogen and Nycteris, MacDonald’s haunting fairy tale of a boy raised only in daylight and a girl raised only in darkness.
A rich mix of realism and fantasy from the Scottish storyteller who inspired C. S. Lewis. Download the free EPUB.