There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. These mountains were full of hollow places underneath; huge caverns, and winding ways, some with water running through them, and some shining with all colors of the rainbow when a light was taken in. Now in these subterranean caverns lived a strange race of beings, called by some gnomes, by some kobolds, by some goblins. They were not ordinarily ugly, but either absolutely hideous, or ludicrously grotesque both in face and form. It will become pretty evident why the little princess had...

There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. These mountains were full of hollow places underneath; huge caverns, and winding ways, some with water running through them, and some shining with all colors of the rainbow when a light was taken in. Now in these subterranean caverns lived a strange race of beings, called by some gnomes, by some kobolds, by some goblins. They were not ordinarily ugly, but either absolutely hideous, or ludicrously grotesque both in face and form. It will become pretty evident why the little princess had...

Mladý učenec zdědí dům s velkou tajemnou knihovnou. Při bádání v ní se mu jako průvodce nabídne havran, s nímž se dostane do paralelního světa „za zrcadlem“, kde neplatí pozemské zákony a realitu tvoří sedm rozměrů. Při cestě podivuhodnou říší se setkává s řadou bytostí, mezi nimi i s krásnou démonickou Lilith, a zažívá hrůzná i povznášející dobrodružství, jejichž hlavním rysem jsou proměny – metamorfózy těla i duše.

Lilith (1895) je nejvýznačnějším a také nejtemnějším dílem skotského spisovatele George MacDonalda...