George MacDonald

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George MacDonald


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

Died
September 18, 1905

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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons. ...more

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Quotes by George MacDonald  (?)
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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”
George MacDonald

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.”
George MacDonald

“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.”
George Mac Donald, Wilfrid Cumbermede

Polls

October 2020 Old School Poll

 
  78 votes, 24.5%

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand 1897, 240 pages
 
  53 votes, 16.6%

The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan 1678, 324 pages
 
  48 votes, 15.0%

 
  46 votes, 14.4%

 
  41 votes, 12.9%

In Praise of Folly by Erasmus 1510, 71 pages
 
  32 votes, 10.0%

Phantastes by George MacDonald 1858, 216 pages
 
  21 votes, 6.6%

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