George MacDonald

"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost!) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Phantastes

The Light Princess (Classic Fairy Tale Collection)

The Princess and Curdie (Puffin Classics)

The Princess and the Goblin

Sir Gibbie

Sir Gibbie (Illustrated)

This is the Original and unabridged text of Lilith. Lilith is considered among the darkest of George MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all. MacDonald was a Christian universalist, believing that all will eventually be saved. However, in this story, divine punishment is not taken lightly, and salvation is hard-won. Mr. Vane owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror.

Lilith, a Romance

A Faerie Romance

Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and III.

C.S. Lewis

Juan José Llanos Collado

Fantastes

Arthur Hughes

**Featuring English translations of all Scots dialogue side-by-side with the original text **Introduction by Douglas Gresham, stepson of C.S. Lewis **Translator's preface by David Jack **Original illustrations by Carrie Stout This towering 1875 novel, set in the Scottish fishing village of Cullen, is considered by many as George MacDonald's fictional masterwork. The intricate tale is more true to place than any of MacDonald's books. As Malcolm is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding majestic Lossie House, with the marquis of Lossie and his tempestuous daughter Florimel at the center of them, we meet some of MacDonald's most memorable characters. Through them Malcolm must unravel many mysteries that hang over the town and its people--and himself!

The Scots-English Edition, Illustrated and Translated

Malcolm

Robert's mother had died when he was very young. His father, overwhelmed with grief and responsibility, eventually disappeared, leaving Robert to the care of his austere, very strict grandmother. In her sincere yet misguided devotion to God, she is constantly on guard against any weak characteristics from her wayward son which might appear in her young grandson.

The Musician's Quest

Michael R. Phillips

The story of a young minister who ultimately must face the reality of the sin he has committed.

The Minister's Restoration

Walter Colman leaves the country farming life to pursue fame and fortune in a literary career. But he is actually leaving much more.

The Poet's Homecoming

A special value edition of Fisherman's Lady and Marquis' Secret in which a humble fisherman learns of his true heritage.

-and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.-Matthewi. 21.I would help some to understand what Jesus came from the home of our Father to be to usand do for us. Everything in the world is more or less misunderstood at first: we have tolearn what it is, and come at length to see that it must be so, that it could not be otherwise.Then we know it; and we never know a thing really until we know it thus.I presume there is scarce a human being who, resolved to speak openly, would not confessto having something that plagued him, something from which he would gladly be free, something rendering it impossible for him, at the moment, to regard life as an altogethergood thing. Most men, I presume, imagine that, free of such and such things antagonistic, life would be an unmingled satisfaction, worthy of being prolonged indefinitely. The causesof their discomfort are of all kinds, and the degrees of it reach from simple uneasiness to amisery such as makes annihilation the highest hope of the sufferer who can persuadehimself of its possibility. Perhaps the greater part of the energy of this world's life goesforth in the endeavour to rid itself of discomfort. Some, to escape it, leave their naturalsurroundings behind them, and with strong and continuous effort keep rising in the socialscale, to discover at every new ascent fresh trouble, as they think, awaiting them, whereasin truth they have brought the trouble with them. Others, making haste to be rich, are slowto find out that the poverty of their souls, none the less that their purses are filling, will yetkeep them unhappy. Some court endless change, nor know that on themselves the changemust pass that will set them free. Others expand their souls with knowledge, only to findthat content will not dwell in the great house they have built. To number the varieties ofhuman endeavour to escape discomfort would be to enumerate all the modes of such life asdoes not know how to live. All seek the thing whose defect appears the cause of theirmisery, and is but the variable occasion of it, the cause of the shape it takes, not of themisery itself; for, when one apparent cause is removed, another at once succeeds. The realcause of his trouble is a something the man has not perhaps recognized as even existent; inany case he is not yet acquainted with its true natur

The Hope of the Gospel

A plot to kidnap a little princess and flood the passageways of a mine is thwarted when a mysterious silver-haired woman and a brave young miner help repel some devilish subterranean creatures.

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle.

George MacDonald

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