Series
Green Knowe
L. M. Boston · 6 novels · 2 short stories · 1954–1976
Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, and published from 1954 to 1976. It features a very old house, Green Knowe, based on Boston's home at the time, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Huntingdonshire, England. In the novels she brings to life the people she imagines might have lived there.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Green Knowe at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s3
- 1960s3
- 1970s2
Shape
6 novels · 2 short stories
1 author · completed series
Mood
Grim and intense: 67% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 8 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Children of Green Knowedarkest
- The River at Green Knowebrightest · most intense
- A Stranger at Green Knowecalmest