The Wise Woman and Other Stories
George MacDonald (1824-1905), the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, influenced not only C. S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales Lilith and Phantastes are particularly famous, much of MacDonald’s best...
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George MacDonald (1824-1905), the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, influenced not only C. S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales Lilith and Phantastes are particularly famous, much of MacDonald’s best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonald’s finest short works—marvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780802818607 (0802818609)
ASIN: 802818609
Publish date: October 23rd 1980
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pages no: 182
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Juvenile,
Fairy Tales,
Christian,
Short Stories,
Christian Fiction
The title story of this collection is exactly what you would expect of a fairy tale written by a minister and subtitled 'a parable', which is to say it's not particularly fantastical, and feels a great deal like reading a sermon. Condescending and blandly didactic--MacDonald never lets an image or s...
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