Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Master of Greylands" (A Novel) by Henry Mrs. Wood. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The story of Jack and his little sister, Ellen, as they try to cope with their father's despair and their own grief and bewilderment following the horrifying death of their mother. Jack discovers a world on the other side of his bathroom mirror that in time reveals to him the reason for his mother's death. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.

It was an alien world of infinite peace...or was it? He awoke as from some misty, prolonged, vaguely disturbing dream, yet somehow he knew that what had happened and what was happening had a strange reality. It was not the kind of reality his disciplined mind would have accepted in the past, though his consciousness rejected the concept of present and past. This reality seemed to exist outside thought and apart from emotion. There was the lingering physical sensation of having traveled infinite distances through unimaginable dimensions. There was, too, the sense of unthreatening mystery, of soft, overpowering greyness. This total greyness meant limitless peace, he seemed to know. He knew his name. He spoke it aloud. The beautiful girl bending over him repeated it. Her skin was grey...