The George McDonald Treasury: Princess and the Goblin, Princess and Curdie, Light Princess, Phantastes, Giant's Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, Golden Key, and Lilith
by George MacDonald
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This enchanted collection brings together eight of McDonalds most well-known fantasies into one delightful volume. The titles include "The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, The Light Princess, Phantastes, The Giants Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, The Golden Key," and "Lilith."Tags
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This is a masterpiece of fantasy literature. If you like fairy tales, it's quintessential. It's written in archaic style, with very long sentences and paragraphs, exotic words and florid, meticulously detailed descriptions of places, emotions and states of mind. It'll bring you into Faery Land and leave you there to find your way out. The rules don't apply, anything can happen and things are never what they seem; as with any good fairy tale, when I got into it, things around me started to look weird. It's a beautiful piece of art and it left a mark.
Lilith überwiegend in der deutschen Ausgabe gelesen - war nicht mein Fall (1,5 *)
Jan 31, 2021German
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George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in show more London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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