George MacDonald

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born

December 10, 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, The United Kingdom

died

September 18, 1905

genre

Children's Books, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality

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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.

Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S. Lewis that wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."

Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encount...more

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Books by George MacDonald

Average rating: 4.04 · 23034 ratings · 1849 reviews · 347 distinct works

	The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes (Illustrations) 399 avg rating — 6630 ratings — published 1872 — 124 editions	My rating:
	The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, Helen Stratton (Illustrator) 403 avg rating — 2217 ratings — published 1883 — 81 editions	My rating:
	At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes (Illustrator) 398 avg rating — 1753 ratings — published 1871 — 95 editions	My rating:
	The Light Princess by George MacDonald, Veronica Murphy (Narrator) 403 avg rating — 1823 ratings — published 1864 — 75 editions	My rating:
	Phantastes 403 avg rating — 1805 ratings — published 1857 — 104 editions	My rating:
	Lilith 397 avg rating — 1563 ratings — published 1895 — 78 editions	My rating:
	The Golden Key by George MacDonald, Maurice Sendak (Illustrations) 408 avg rating — 662 ratings — published 1867 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Fisherman's Lady by George MacDonald, Michael Phillips (editor) 402 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1875 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Curate's Awakening by George MacDonald, Michael Phillips (Editor) 414 avg rating — 352 ratings — published 1985 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Wise Woman and Other Stories by George MacDonald, Craig Yoe 421 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1875 — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by George MacDonald

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
― George MacDonald

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“Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw. ”
― George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl

tags: heart , love

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“It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness. I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over over any soul be loved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies. Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return. ”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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