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12 de dic. de 2021 · CS Lewis (below) looked on MacDonald as his “mentor”, stating that he knew he had “crossed a great frontier” after he read Phantastes which he had picked up at a train station bookstall. Born in Huntly on December 10, 1824, MacDonald grew up in a literary environment. His father, a farmer who was a descendant of a Glencoe MacDonald who ...
G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had “made a difference to my whole existence”. '''George MacDonald''' (10 December 1824– 18 September 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.
15 de ene. de 2021 · The Scottish author George MacDonald (1824-1905) recalled of his own childhood: “We had very few books for children in those days.”. There were multiple reasons for this famine of words of wonder. At the most practical level, a whole series of technological innovations and trade and business developments would allow the Victorian world of ...
This milieu of 19th century Calvinism laid down the soil out of which George MacDonald’s transformational perspectives about God later emerged. He was steeped in that theological orthodoxy almost from infancy. He grew uncomfortable with its portrayal of God even as a boy—especially the doctrine of a predestined elect.
1 de nov. de 1991 · MacDonald was born in 1824 as the second of six sons to George MacDonald, Sr., who ran a farm and bleaching field in West Aberdeenshire, Scotland. MacDonald lost his mother when he was eight. His father’s second marriage eventually added three daughters to the family. Correspondence between parents and children, as well as between the ...
19 de feb. de 2021 · February 19, 2021. George MacDonald’s first major fiction work, in his words “a sort of fairy tale for grown people,” Phantastes was published in 1858 by Smith, Elder & Co., London. This unusual fantasy, subtitled A Fairie Romance, is one of MacDonald’s most mysterious and esoteric titles. The book’s narrator, Anodos, enters Fairy ...
13 de nov. de 2020 · As one who has been roused to life by George MacDonald, I was eagerly awaiting this book, and am happy to report the author delivers on each of his promises, and in fine style. The last few years have seen a number of critical assessments of MacDonald’s work, each written with a slightly different focus, and Waking the Dead is one of the best.
