The House Without Windows
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2024
Language: eng
Subjects: Fiction; Children's literature
Description: <p>A young girl named Eepersip lives with her parents in a cottage, but she feels trapped within its confines, so she leaves civilization and seeks a free and carefree life in nature.</p> <p>After leaving her parents, she founds a home in the outdoors, rejecting both the society of adults and the comforts of civilization; she initially is content to live in the meadow, but she grows restless and seeks a new place to live in both the sea and the mountain. In time, she reaches a higher form of life.</p> <p><a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/barbara-newhall-follett">Follett</a> started writing the novel in 1923 at the age of 9, but the first draft was lost in a house fire, which led her to rewrite the entire work. It was eventually published to critical success in 1927, when she was just 12 years old.</p>