Never one to shy away from a difficulty, MacDonald explores some of the most challenging and perplexing passages in the Gospels, each time rising to newer heights in his elucidation of the mysteries of God's Love. 266 pp.
Never one to shy away from a difficulty, MacDonald explores some of the most challenging and perplexing passages in the Gospels, each time rising to n...
David Elginbrod is a novel giving a vivid depiction of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. The chief characters are upright and righteous, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter. The novel interweaves the story with a strand of mysticism and mesmerism. Critics are glowing in their praise of this work: "A novel which is the work of a man of genius. It will attract the highest class of readers" - Times. "A clever novel. The incidents are exciting, and the interest is maintained to the close. It may be doubted if Sir Walter Scott himself ever painted a Scotch...
David Elginbrod is a novel giving a vivid depiction of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. The chief characters are upright and righteo...
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time including C. S. Lewis, who wrote "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton said that The Princess and the Goblin was a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." His three fantasy novels for children are available here in one volume. They are so strange and dreamlike that adults often enjoy them as much as the children....
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time including C. S. Lew...
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time including C. S. Lewis, who wrote "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton said that The Princess and the Goblin was a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." His four best known fantasy novels for adults, are available here in one volume. The Light Princess is cursed by a witch and loses her "gravity" becoming silly,...
George MacDonald is famous for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels. He was a great inspiration to many writers of his time including C. S. Lew...
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries.""" The Complete Fairy Tales "brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labours. But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer," MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a...
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries.""" The Complete Fairy Tales "brings together a...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. This was the first prose work published by MacDonald. Because of its limited financial success, MacDonald saw himself forced to turn to writing realistic novels. Phantastes, however, exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations: for example, C. S. Lewis in his book Surprised by Joy claimed that his imagination had been "baptized" by reading it. The story centers on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. This was the first p...
In his C.S Lewiss introduction to George MacDonald: An Anthology, he speaks highly of MacDonalds theology: "This collection, as I have said, was designed not to revive MacDonalds literary reputation but to spread his religious teaching. Hence most of my extracts are taken from the three volumes of Unspoken Sermons. My own debt to this book is almost as great as one man can owe to another: and nearly all serious inquirers to whom I have introduced it acknowledge that it has given them great help-sometimes indispensable help toward the very acceptance of the Christian faith.
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In his C.S Lewiss introduction to George MacDonald: An Anthology, he speaks highly of MacDonalds theology: "This collection, as I have said, was ...
""Dealing with Faeries"" is George MacDonald's first and most famous collection of fairytales. This volume containes: The Light Princess, The Giants Heart, The Shadows, Cross Purposes, The Golden Key
""Dealing with Faeries"" is George MacDonald's first and most famous collection of fairytales. This volume containes: The Light Princess, The Giants H...