'That Very Mab': A Fiction and Literature Classic By Andrew Lang! AAA+++

Our story begins with Queen Mab (see Romeo and Juliet), the British ex-pat who has had a lovely life on the isolated and primitive island of Samoa, but is disturbed by an invasion of British missionaries and conquesting Germans. Distraught and distressed, that very Mab rides a seagull to return to her British homeland to see how things have fared during her 200 year (more or less) absence.