The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonaldGeorge MacDonald, Scottish author of Phantastes, here relates the romance of the unusual lovers Photogen and Nycteris, in a land drenched in magic. A fairy tale novel written in 1882 a version of this story appeared in Harper's Young People as a series beginning on December 2, 1879 and completing on January 6, 1880. A curse from a witch decrees that a boy will never wake at night nor sleep during the day; while a girl is doomed never to sleep at night

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And as he continued his mysterious private quest

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