The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables

The book opens in the gray village of Twelve-trees, where despair has settled like fog. But hope arrives in the form of an old knife-grinder who carries a mysterious wheel, one that transforms human tears into vibrant rainbows. This magical act awakens the villagers to beauty they'd been too weary to see, launching them on a quest for the metaphorical gold at the rainbow's end. Throughout the collection, Le Gallienne weaves tales of struggling poets, whimsical creatures, and ordinary people encountering profound moments of transformation. These are not Grimm-dark fairy tales, but something softer and more literary: fables born from the romantic tradition, where dreams and reality blur, and where even the smallest act of imagination can rewrite the world.