A Doorway in Fairyland

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. These richly imaginative fairy tales weave love, longing, and wonder into a world where wishes may come true only at the edge of impossibility. In "The Blue Moon," Nillywill, a princess raised as a peasant, is separated from Hands-pansy and told their love can happen only "once in a blue moon," yet flower wisdom, a moon-fay, and a journey across a shimmering sea carry them toward reunion and transcendence. "The Wishing-Pot" follows cautious Tulip into a crystal bowl of dangerous desire, where he races through enchantment to reach his beloved, frees trapped villagers, and ultimately wins a joyful marriage through sacrifice and fate. In "The Way of the Wind," lonely Katipah's kite-flying yearning answers a kiss from Gamma-gata, the West Wind, while "Lubin" and the red shoes lead a poor cobbler from honest labor to murder, magical pursuit, and royal mystery. Across these tales, enchantment tests courage, compassion, and devotion, while sorrow and delight remain inseparable.