CHAPTER I.
Despondency and consolation.
Before I begin to tell you some of the things I have
seen and heard, in both of which I have had to take
a share, now from the compulsion of my office, now
from...
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George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, h...
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Although George MacDonald began his literary career as a poet and considered poetry to be the highest literary calling, he made his mark in Victorian literature as a novelist and fantasist. In his own...
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During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Qua...
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Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis ...
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Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
George MacDonald
George MacDonald