George MacDonald





George MacDonald

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

died
September 18, 1905

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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


Average rating: 4.04 · 23034 ratings · 1849 reviews · 347 distinct works
The Princess and the Goblin
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The Princess and Curdie
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At the Back of the North Wind
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The Light Princess
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Phantastes
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Lilith
3.97 of 5 stars 397 avg rating — 1563 ratings — published 1895 — 78 editions
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The Golden Key
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The Fisherman's Lady
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4.02 of 5 stars 402 avg rating — 358 ratings — published 1875 — 4 editions
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The Curate's Awakening
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More books by George MacDonald…
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
George MacDonald

“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

“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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