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Lilith

by George MacDonald (Author), C.S. Lewis (Introduction)

3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 · rating details · 2,328 ratings · 219 reviews

'Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe' Wrote W.H Auden in his introduction to the 1954 reprint of George MacDonald's Lilith, first published in 1895.

It is the story of Mr Vane, an orphan and heir to a large house - a house in which he has a vision that leads him through a large old mirror into another world. In chronicling the five trips Mr Vane makes to this...more

Paperback, 252 pages

Published 1982 by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Michigan (first published 1895)

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Feb 23, 2012 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, classics, fantasy

I was torn between 4 ans 5 for this one(at first). I love it in many ways and give it 5 stars. Some will probably find it a little harder to read but that's more due to the time in which it is written and it's slightly dated style. I'm not sure that "relax" is the right word here but "relax" into the book and "experience it". This book is in my opinion amazing. I got it out of the library and still would like to find a copy available locally.

Great book.

UPDATE:

I have since bought the book. It ha...more

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Jun 15, 2013 Don Incognito marked it as shelf · review of another edition

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A review proper will be forthcoming. In the meantime, here are my raw notes taken during reading.

[June 2012] So far, this fantasy story is self-consciously impressionistic--the narrator tends to give vague and mysterious descriptions of what he sees, and repeatedly apologizes to the reader for being unable to describe them more adequately due to their strangeness.

7/19/2012

I've never read a book quite like this. It's bizarre...

7/22/2012
...possibly the most bizarre book I've ever read as an adult.

...more A review proper will be forthcoming. In the meantime, here are my raw notes taken during reading.

[June 2012] So far, this fantasy story is self-consciously impressionistic--the narrator tends to give vague and mysterious descriptions of what he sees, and repeatedly apologizes to the reader for being unable to describe them more adequately due to their strangeness.

7/19/2012

I've never read a book quite like this. It's bizarre...

7/22/2012
...possibly the most bizarre book I've ever read as an adult. Imaginative and mysterious.

8/4/2012

Almost finished. Much of this novel's content, especially in the last chapters, is essentially poetry. It starts to feel very much like a C.S. Lewis fictional work (most specifically, Perelandra); it should, because Lewis considered George MacDonald a spiritual mentor, even depicting MacDonald as his guide in the spiritual world in The Great Divorce. I have felt tempted to compare Lilith to The Great Divorce, but the plot isn't similar enough.

8/12/12
On top of everything else, this book will add some very obscure words to your vocabulary, including eidolon, chrysoprase, and cenotaph.

Good quotations from Lilith:

"Never a sound awoke; the darkness was one with the silence, and the silence was the terror."

"Thou shalt die out of death into life."

"The darkness knows neither the light nor itself..."

"So much was ours ere ever the first sun rose upon our freedom: what must not the eternal day bring with it!"

"See every little flower straighten its stalk, lift up its neck, and with outstretched head stand expectant: something more than the sun, greater than the light, is coming, is coming—none the less surely coming that it is long upon the road! What matters to-day, or to-morrow, or ten thousand years to Life himself, to Love himself! He is coming, is coming, and the necks of all humanity are stretched out to see him come! Every morning will they thus outstretch themselves, every evening will they droop and wait—until he comes.—Is this but an air-drawn vision? When he comes, will he indeed find them watching thus?"

"Man dreams and desires; God broods and wills and quickens."

"When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it."

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Mar 15, 2012 Meg Powers rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was an interesting book to read after David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus. Both deal with fantastic travel (Lilith with inter-dimensional travel, Arcturus with inter-planetary travel) as a means of religious and spiritual discovery. Both drag you on a harrowing journey, where many questions go unanswered. Lilith, however, is blatantly Christian. It is fun to read a fantasy novel that illustrates the milestones of Christianity, particularly Creation and the Resurrection, using quirky versio...more

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Sep 15, 2007 Mark Becher rated it 4 of 5 stars

As my brother accurately described it, it starts out as a sort of Christian acid trip/Alice in Wonderland type experience. For the first half of the book you have almost no idea what is actually going on, but it's worth sticking it through because later it all falls into place. The story takes it's premise from an old Jewish myth about a companion named Lilith whom God gave to Adam before Eve. She was an angelic being, not human, and couldn't reconcile herself to the vocation of bearing Adam's...more As my brother accurately described it, it starts out as a sort of Christian acid trip/Alice in Wonderland type experience. For the first half of the book you have almost no idea what is actually going on, but it's worth sticking it through because later it all falls into place. The story takes it's premise from an old Jewish myth about a companion named Lilith whom God gave to Adam before Eve. She was an angelic being, not human, and couldn't reconcile herself to the vocation of bearing Adam's children to populate the earth. They had a single child together before their relationship was abandoned and Lilith was replaced by a more fitting companion taken from Adam's side. Because of Eve's later fruitfulness Lilith bore an eternal hatred towards the human race. Most of the myth remains in the background however and the story centers on a man who stumbles through a mirror into an alternate realm where Adam, Eve, and Lilith continue to carry out their perpetual feud. The climax of the story involves Adam, the Father of mankind, and Mara, the Lady of Sorrows, leading Lilith grudgingly toward repentance. A parallel plot line involves the main character slowly learning how little it is he actually knows about what he has hitherto simply called "reality." Only after he willingly choosing to lie down in the House of the Dead is he able to rise to a fullness of life of which he has never before even dared to dream.
C.S. Lewis has been quoted as saying that this book "baptized his imagination," and for good reason. The writing style leaves something to be desired (it is heavy and plodding in places), but the sheer myth of it is amazing. In my opinion, the entire story was worth the final few chapters which turn out to be a glimpse of what earthly life will be like after the resurrection of the dead. It is absolutely beautiful in its description. If you have yet to long for the world to come, this story may help take you a long way down that road. And, better yet, teach you to look for the glimpses of the heavenly kingdom which even now break through into the present world. Here is my favorite passage along those lines from Lilith:

"Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through. Sometimes when I am abroad, a like thing takes place; the heavens and the earth, the trees and the grass appear for a moment to shake as if about to pass away; then, lo, they have settled again into the old familiar face! At times I seem to hear whisperings around me, as if some that loved me were talking of me; but when I would distinguish the words, they cease, and all is very still. I know not whether these things rise in my brain or enter it from without. I do not seek them, they come, and I let them go.

"Strange dim memories, which will not abide identification, often, through the misty windows of the past, look out upon me in the broad daylight, but I never dream now. It may be, notwithstanding, that, when most awake, I am only dreaming the more! But when I wake at last into that life which, as a mother her child, carries this life in its bosom, I shall know that I wake, and shall doubt no more.

"I wait; asleep or awake, I wait.

"Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one."(less)

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Mar 19, 2009 Danielle rated it 1 of 5 stars

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I have an enormous respect for George MacDonald. His books such as At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, The Day Boy and the Night Girl and even Alec Forbes and His Friend Annie were among my childhood favorites--they were magical and my first brushes with fantasy at 8-10 years old. He was an exceptionally gifted and inspired writer of the 1800's. I even respect his history as a clergyman who loved god but left off being a preacher because he believ...more I have an enormous respect for George MacDonald. His books such as At the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, The Day Boy and the Night Girl and even Alec Forbes and His Friend Annie were among my childhood favorites--they were magical and my first brushes with fantasy at 8-10 years old. He was an exceptionally gifted and inspired writer of the 1800's. I even respect his history as a clergyman who loved god but left off being a preacher because he believed, against the tenants of his times, that everyone was capable of redemption. Plus, he was Scottish. You know? :)

But Lilith has been extremely difficult for me to get through. Lilith, the biblical Adam's 'other' wife, is basically damned and evil and vile because she's a really bad mother. (And I mean really bad, the characterization of which is misogynist in itself.) Almost worse, the main character's attraction to another disturbingly child-like girl is based solely on her having an intensely devoted mothering nature. This was "good". Another else is "bad".

Perhaps this is all because it's the first time I've attempted one of GM's books after leaving behind my childhood religion. Perhaps I'd find myself reacting the same way to any of my old favorites, at this point in my life. I find that despite my respect for him, I can't not mention the sexism inherent in it, even though he's a man of god from the 1800's--what else could you expect? I know he wasn't more misogynist than his contemporaries--and considering his many, many books from the feminine perspective, I suspect he was actually less so than most! But it's still worth mentioning to the modern reader that the preconceived notions of womanhood, especially motherhood, that this book is based on are absolutely revolting.

It's pretty and romantic only if you are capable of completely divorcing the notion of womanhood and motherhood from any real, live woman. From humanity, from being capable of developing and living by our own moral compass, from the concept of self-determination. (less)

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Dec 24, 2007 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Much, much preachier and more metaphysical than Phantastes, this MacDonald fantasy appealed less to me but still kept me reading so that I finished all 250 pages in one sitting. In this book, MacDonald's love affair with death gets even heavier and creepier. He also seems to be making a commentary on the danger of the "New Woman," who willfully abandoned the role of "Angel in the House" at the turn of the century. The moments wherein he becomes wrapped up in the world-building aspect of the fant...more

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Jan 25, 2013 Juushika rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Following a phantom, an average man is pulled into a strange world--one ephemeral and magical, where issues of salvation are not theoretical but are instead a literal battle and quest. Lilith is a direct allegory of Christian Universalist salvation, laid atop strange magics and stranger symbolism. Over landscapes effervescent and transcendent, shadowed and looming, the beginning of the book is more of a ramble than a journey; at his best MacDonald is deeply evocative, and while the book's intern...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Smcleish rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Originally published on my blog here in May 2002.

George MacDonald may have written pure fantasy, both for adults (Phantastes) and for children (The Princess and the Goblin), but he has been most admired for the allegory of Lilith. This picture of Christian salvation is the reason for his influence on C.S. Lewis in particular; as well as being part of the inspiration for the Narnia stories and the Ransome trilogy, it is why Lewis makes MacDonald his guide to heaven in The Great Divorce.

Lewis, of...more Originally published on my blog here in May 2002.

George MacDonald may have written pure fantasy, both for adults (Phantastes) and for children (The Princess and the Goblin), but he has been most admired for the allegory of Lilith. This picture of Christian salvation is the reason for his influence on C.S. Lewis in particular; as well as being part of the inspiration for the Narnia stories and the Ransome trilogy, it is why Lewis makes MacDonald his guide to heaven in The Great Divorce.

Lewis, of course, was also steeped in medieval allegorical writing, the most characteristic literature of that period. Though there is much in common between them and later allegories such as The Pilgrim's Progress, there are also differences, at least in English. The great popularity of this work - second only to the Bible - seems to have quenched the desire to write acknowledged allegory for many years. The main way that it differes from the medieval genre is that it is Protestant in outlook; it is all about personal faith. (It is also the direct model for Lewis' Pilgrim's Regress.)

All these are different from Lilith. Most allegories are open, with the meaning of the characters and places revealed at least in part by their names (Christian and the Slough of Despond in Bunyan, for example). Lilith, on the other hand, is a closed allegory, and MacDonald explains very little of the inner meaning of his writing. In the end, this makes it more powerful, as the allegory doesn't distract from the story (it would be almost possible to ignore it entirely), while the interested reader can try to work it out like a riddle. Many writers since MacDonald have incorporated allegorical elements into their work in this way (prominent examples including Salman Rushdie and Iris Murdoch), and in the fantasy genre it has become the norm to analyse the more literary writers in these terms. (Tolkien is an obvious example, and he tired of facile interpretations of The Lord of the Rings to the extent of adding a preface denying that the trilogy was an allegory of the Second World War.) Allegory is frequently used today, both within and without the fantasy genre, to encode the ideas of Freud and Jung rather than to send a religious message.

Like The Pilgrim's Progress, Lilith is about the salvation of the individual, here presented as a first person narrative while Bunyan is a third person one. Bunyan writes mainly about the temptations which attack someone who is already a Christian, as seen from a Puritan point of view, while MacDonald's theme is a man's progress to conversion. His narrator's story begins in the library of an English country manor, where his studies are interrupted when he sees an elderly stranger dressed in black - a man who appears to be (the ghost of) his father's old librarian, Mr Raven. It may be the raven imagery, but this opening seemed to me to be reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe. He is eventually transported to another world, the allegorical domain, where he learns about what humanity means (in the company of a group of innocent children) and meets Lilith, the original bride of Adam according to rabbinical literature, a princess both desireable and wicked. MacDonald was fascinated by this character, to the extent that in the end the novel is as much about her relationship with the Christian faith as it is about the narrator's. She is, I think, the allegorical symbol for lust and impure decadence and is the world, to use the term in the sense of (say) St Paul. It is generally easier for a writer to make evil interesting as opposed to purity (even Milton's Paradise Lost is really a tragedy centred around Lucifer); this is because goodness is usually perceived as being about refraining from particular actions rather than about positive virtues.

MacDonald's weighting of his novel towards Lilith makes it more interesting to read, but it does muddy the waters of the allegory. The novel's major flaw is a certain sentimentality, particularly in the depiction of the children, but it will remain enjoyable to most readers and fascinating to anyone interested in the history of the fantasy genre and its relationship to earlier literary forms. (less)

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Nov 04, 2012 Michele Brenton rated it 2 of 5 stars

Not my cup of tea at all :( It was interesting from the historical perspective in that I could see so many points at which it had obviously inspired other writers and that is why I gave it two stars instead of one. I have enjoyed the books that came after it by other fantasy authors. But nowadays when there is so much choice of accessible tightly written fantasy which also chimes with the social mores of current society I find it difficult to believe anyone would genuinely read this for pure enj...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Christopher Bunn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm a fan of George MacDonald for his fantasies and for his children's books. His two older fantasies, Lilith and Phantases, are difficult to read and they're difficult to pigeon-hole. But why do we even want to pigeon-hole things in the first place? Oh, right. Marketing.

Anyway, like I said, Lilith is not the easiest book to read. Perhaps it's partially due to the era MacDonald was writing in, but he certainly isn't pandering to the lowest denominator here. The story is a haunting tale of a man...more

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Jun 13, 2012 Dylan Jay Smith rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is by far one of the darkest books I've ever read. Coming from a Christian minister, I would expect the book to be a bit preachy. I found, however, that the story is way more of a dark fairy tale set in a somewhat biblical world, with faint biblical themes. It's hard, of course, not to be a bit biblical, considering some of the main characters are Adam, Eve, and Lilith (the first wife of Adam). MacDonald writes this story in a way that truly makes them characters in a book, rather than bibl...more

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Mar 31, 2012 Annette rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: christian-worldview, classics, fantasy, gutenberg

Not my favorite of MacDonald's many excellent works, but worth reading if you're up for a bit of a challenge. Another "alternate world" story, it reminded me more of Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass (both about a generation older) than Narnia (roughly 50 years newer) - right down to the mode of access and a helpful/inscrutable rational animal guide. The Raven's world is highly dream-like with a plenitude of irrational or impossible occurrences in every chapter. However, unlike "W...more

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Feb 09, 2012 C. Hollis Crossman rated it 2 of 5 stars

I give Lilith more than one star because it succeeds as a fairy tale; I give it no more than two because it fails on every other level.

It's not that MacDonald is a bad writer; he can make aesthetically pleasing sentences. It's just that his underlying premise is so unbiblical, and he doesn't stop pushing that premise in our faces throughout the entire novel.

Basically, this is MacDonald's most widely-read defense of universalism, that Hell isn't really a place of eternal torment but rather a hold...more

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Feb 02, 2012 Φλεγύας rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of these books that I -personally- would classify as solid 5/5.
I only gave it a 4/5 for a single reason. MacDonald is not a typical writer. He was a priest, or, in the words of Wikipedia, a Christian minister.
Why's that of importance? Because, the folk and the shepherds may use the same language, but not in the same way.
The reader of this magnificent, allegoric, deeply religious fairytale will need to arm himself/herself with tones of good will to push onwards when the sentences beco...more

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Mar 25, 2011 Karly Abreu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

George MacDonald is one of the most severely underrated authors of all time. A contemporary to Lewis Caroll and major influence on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, this man’s imagination apparently knew no bounds and that is incredibly apparent in his masterpiece, Lilith. Narrated by a nameless everyman figure, it follows his adventures in a world he discovers after inheriting his father’s house and many unsettling circumstances there, leading him to a mirror which reveals another realm. Incredibl...more

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May 03, 2013 John Caneday rated it 3 of 5 stars

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MacDonald was a big influence on C.S. Lewis, as many know. Lewis acknowledges this in the preface to this edition. MacDonald was a universalist, which is quite apparent in reading Lilith. The entire premise of the book requires one to enter a world where universalism is presupposed. Universalism, at least the MacDonald version of it, believes that all people will eventually bow the knee to Christ in faith, repent, believe, and enter into the New Heavens and the New Earth. MacDonald even argues t...more

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Jul 19, 2010 Veronica rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

'A long time we were together, I and the moon, walking side by side, she the dull shine, and I the live shadow.'

I didn't like Lilith the first time I read it, despite being a big fan of MacDonald (and the people he influenced, like CS Lewis & Tolkien), but over the years as I have read it and read it again it has become one of my favorite books. Do not make the mistake of trying to understand each nuance- that would be like trying to understand all the symbolism of a Salvador Dali painting....more

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Oct 04, 2011 Elizabeth LaPrelle rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I really really love George MacDonald--that is to say, I really really love his book, The Light Princess. I wanted to like Lilith a lot more than I did. It is so weird! And that's good. But...I don't know. I can be such a Whiny Wanda about this "allegory" business. Like, there's a Gulliver's Travels vibe here. I am not such a Gulliver fan. However, there are some excellent ambient MacDonald features: moonlight...ravens...old people who are completely awesome rulers of time/the universe...
Definit...more

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Jul 16, 2010 cole rated it 4 of 5 stars

Lillith is a beautiful story that, as a good fairy tale should, draws the tragic and exultant in a heightening crescendo. The story is an enjoyable journey through an imaginative and enchanting allegory of love, forgiveness and redemption. The imagery is heavy enough that it is often hard to figure out just what everything represents or if someone or something represents anything at all. The narrator, Mr. Vane (one wonders if MacDonald was playing off the homophone with vain or not), can be hard...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Jenna St Hilaire rated it 5 of 5 stars

In a beautiful introduction to the 2000 Eerdmans edition of this book, C.S. Lewis calls Lilith one of MacDonald’s great works, along with Phantastes, the Curdie books, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. “What he does best is fantasy,” Lewis says, “—fantasy that hovers between the allegorical and the mythopoeic. And this, in my opinion, he does better than any man.”

Having managed to read Phantastes without making sense of more than a quarter of it, I was not tempted to sympathize with Lewis goin...more

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May 17, 2011 Jesse rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, classics

I must admit, that at first I didn't think I was going to be able to finish this book. The prose seemed convoluted and obscure; I was often having to reread pages because I felt like I had missed something. However, I'm really glad I stuck with it because now I can honestly say that this is the best George MacDonald I've read.

"Lilith" is a dark biblical fantasy, but unlike anything I've come across. I would say that MacDonald's "Lilith" is to Genesis what America McGee was to "Alice and Wonderla...more

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May 04, 2010 Jeslyn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the third novel I've read by George MacDonald, the first being The Princess and The Goblin, sort of a young-adult novel, which was wonderfully written. I then started searching out other titles and now have a little collection.

Frankly, I was a bit worried in the beginning - it started very reminiscent of Phantastes, and was loaded with exclamation points, which seemed odd...but don't be fooled: the story picks up in a hurry, and is an excellent read. MacDonald's imaginings of the world...more

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Jun 17, 2012 Kerstin rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I got this book for my 13th Birthday back then the German version of it. What can I say ? I couldn`t stop reading from the first sentence and didn`t count how many times I`ve read it again since... It got me into fantasy/gothic reading and still is my all time fav. This is one of those books one wants to take everywhere one goes. Somehow I lost that book due to moving once and it felt like a piece of myself was lost.
When I finally tried to buy it again here or get the english version - I had to...more

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Feb 17, 2011 Kraig Horton rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a very interesting read. At first MacDonald's style and prose read like it was going in circles, everything felt like it was all rhyme and puzzles. After looking beyond the way the story was written and diving into the characters, plot and symbolism, I found this novel to be quite amazing. The way the author took the idea of Adam and Eve and the symbols and concepts of Christianity and mixing it with a myth of Lilith supposedly adams first wife and then became the queen of hell. The boo...more

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Mar 16, 2008 Ralph rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book is as difficult as people say it is, but I found it worth the effort. C. S. Lewis's introduction was a big help to me in getting into the book, and you can recognize in it many places that are reflected in Lewis' own writings. The evangelism of Lilith was perhaps the most remarkable and illuminating description I've ever read of the struggle of a person to come to faith.

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Aug 12, 2010 Bridget West rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Aug 09, 2009 Jenna rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This is perhaps my favorite book of all time. It does not get enough good press. It is definitely MacDonald's magnum opus. I would recommend it to all fantasy-lovers and readers just looking for something refreshingly different. Like most of George MacDonald's work, Lilith does have strong religious undertones, but they are presented in a unique way that I don't believe will offend or even distract non-religious readers. The religious content is comparable to that in the works of CS Lewis. I pro...more

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He considered it his best book. I think "At the Back of the North Wind" is the best (although I've always liked Sir Gibbie and many others as well).

Dr. Neuhauser let me know about some publishers of unedited George MacDonald books.

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Aug 21, 2008 Ron rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, christian-fiction

The only thing more pathetic than this tale were the highlighting and marginal notes by someone who had no idea what MacDonald was about. Perhaps only read because all the great experts tell us to read it.

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Dec 05, 2012 Adam Gilchrest rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This story blew my mind. I believe that I was assuming that it would be rather straight forward but still full of symbolism. Im not sure why I assumed this. I was so bewildered and perplexed at one point early on, that I almost stopped reading it all together. I felt like I fell into Wonderland but it was deathly ill and out to murder Alice. Any way, I remember after the chapter entitled,"The White Leach" things began to make sense in my mind and then he goes and explains a lot of what happened...more

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