This unique collection of Adela Cathcart's complete fantasy tales has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.
Excerpt:
“I confess I was a little dismayed to find what a solemn turn the club-stories had taken. But this dismay lasted for a moment only; for I saw that Adela was deeply interested, again wearing the look that indicates abstracted thought and feeling. I said to myself: “This is very different mental fare from what you have been used to, Adela.” But she seemed able to mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, for she had the appearance of one who is stilled by the strange newness of her thoughts. I was sure that she was now experiencing a consciousness of existence quite different from anything she had known before. But it had a curious outcome.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence”.
Table of Contents:
CHRISTMAS EVE CHURCH
THE CHRISTMAS DINNER
THE NEW DOCTOR
THE LIGHT PRINCESS
THE BELL
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S STORY
SONG
THE CURATE AND HIS WIFE
THE SHADOWS
THE EVENING AT THE CURATE'S
PERCY AND HIS MOTHER
THE BROKEN SWORDS
MY UNCLE PETER
THE GIANT'S HEART
A CHILD'S HOLIDAY
INTERRUPTION
PERCY
THE CRUEL PAINTER
THE CASTLE
WHAT NEXT?
GENERALSHIP
AN UNFORESEEN FORESIGHT
