‘That Very Mab‪’‬

Queen Mab sings to the sea—and the Sacred Island itself sails toward Samoa. But when dawn brings a missionary steamer, rival flags, and gunfire, the fairy queen decides it is time to leave.

In this late-nineteenth-century satire, Mab has spent centuries among the fairies of the South Seas, far from the England that drove her kind away. On April 1, she returns to a country of unfamiliar words, solemn certainties, and human troubles she can scarcely comprehend. Innocent and curious, she must make sense of a civilization that seems to have traded its wonder for rules and disillusionment. Can a fairy queen find her bearings in the modern world—and what will she make of the people who now call it home?

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