George MacDonald
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"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," raved poet W. H. Auden about this classic Victorian novel. Known as the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald was a Scottish minister who later turned to writing poetry and novels, gaining acclaim for his children's books and influencing J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Lilith is considered to be one of the most important visionary novels of the nineteenth century. Written in 1895, Lilith...
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George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, who influenced the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories, including 'The Gray Wolf,' 'The Cruel Painter,' 'The Broken Swords,' 'The Wow O'Rivven, The Bell,' 'Uncle Cornelius, His Story,' 'The Butcher's Bills,' and 'Birth, Dreaming, Death.' 'I do not write,' MacDonald once said, 'for children, but for...