Feather

When an eagle sweeps down and carries off the headstrong Princess Ernalie from her kingdom, she finds herself in a strange land ruled by a dethroned king and queen. There she discovers a single feather from the eagle's tail grants her the power of invisibility. She falls in love with the royal son, Treblo, and when he falls mortally ill, she must use the feather's magic to undertake an impossible voyage to the moon to save him. Along the way, she meets the Man in the Moon, the Fates, and the goddess Diana herself. But her return home brings a cruel twist: she finds herself back in her original kingdom, separated from Treblo by the same impassable terrain that first took her from everything she knew. Ford Madox Ford, the master novelist behind The Good Soldier and Parade's End, wrote this fairy tale in 1914, revealing a tender, whimsical side beneath his literary heavyweight credentials. It's a story about what we risk for love, and whether magic can bridge the distances that divide us.