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Also included are Ronald's essay about his father, "George MacDonald: A Personal Note," plus a selection from "The Laughing Elf," his 1922 fable about the necessity of both sorrow and joy in life.You can find a more detailed description hereTo purchase 'The Near Loss of Everything' please visit our shopping cart The Golden Key has been online since 1995 HomeGeorge MacDonald SocietyFacebook GroupE- TextsResourcesPhotos & PlacesWingfold Email ListNorth America StoreExternal LinksContact UsSite Map Amazon.com Widgets Amazon.co.uk WidgetsPlease support the ongoing costs of this site by using the above links for your amazon purchases.. . .
By popular demand the Wingfold Calendar (A George MacDonald quote for each day of the year) is back!While the list has no connection with Barbara Amell's excellent Wingfold but we are happy to recommend it.
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Ronald once described losing a beloved spouse as "the near loss of everything." Ronald's story is mentioned briefly in biographies of his father, but Asheville resident and MacDonald scholar, Dale Wayne Slusser, presents new information, unpublished letters, and over 30 illustrations.
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MacDonald's writing has an outstanding imaginative power, largely influenced by the German and English Romantics.
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George MacDonald: Biography from Answers.com
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A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G.
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The works Lilith and Phantastes are both named as books in a library, in the title track of another Waterboys album, Universal Hall.
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They grow old as they go, become separated, but at the last stage Mossy finds Tangle waiting for him, and they climb together up the stairs out of the earth: 'They knew they were going up to the country whence the shadows fall.' BibliographyCarpenter, Humphrey, "'George MacDonald and the Tender Grandmother'", in Secret Gardens (1985).
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Airy Number 10 Dinah Maria Craik Room to Roam Royal Flash Ballet-Th??tre Contemporain Arthur Hughes Room to Roam [Collector's Edition] Howard Pyle Maurice Sendak This Is the Sea [Bonus CD] William McDougall Whispering Smith George MacDonald Girl of My Dreams Ballard MacDonald Lewis Carroll C.
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Maurice who influenced MacDonald knew the Greek Fathers, especially Clement, very well.
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Sae gang yer wa's to Mistress Coorthoup, wi' a flech i' yer lug." (Some dialect of certain characters has been retained for authentic "flavor.") “MacDonald…speaks to a later time than his own.” —Richard Reis, 1972 The original was published as Malcolm in 1875.. . .
Lewis called his spiritual “master.”" href="responsesgeorge.html">“Dear George MacDonald…”: Responses From Readers > Discover why C.S.
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Auden (who said that MacDonald was "one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century"), Oswald Chambers (".how I love that man!"), and most notably C.S.
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Lewis, who repeatedly acknowledged MacDonald as one of the most important inspirers of his own fantasies and Christian theological writings.
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"I have read a new MacDonald since I last wrote, which I think the very best of the novels.," he wrote to Arthur Greeves in 1931.
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It is well enough known that if you dig deep in any old garden, such as this one, ancient—perhaps forgotten—flowers will appear.
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George MacDonald - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online ...
One of their sons, Greville Macdonald would later become a writer himself and author a biography of his father.. . .
Lewis; formed a strong friendship with Mark Twain after a tumultuous start and G.
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Some of his early poetry was Within and Without (1855) and Poems (1857), however his first real successes came with his Scottish country life stories such as David Elginbrod (1862), Alec Forbes (1865) and Robert Falconer (1868).
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The ill-health that had plagued MacDonald the greater part of his life forced him to seek the warmer climates of Europe.
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The 1870s brought an invitation for MacDonald to tour and lecture in America.
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This is so in William Law's "You Will Receive Power" also, a book which I found, personally, to be life-transforming and which I also found to be a final absolute answer to what "being a Christian" really means.
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Biography of George MacDonald - Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Lewis states that while reading a copy of MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) "a few hours later," through inspiration of the gentle Christian's words "I knew I had crossed a great frontier."..... . .
One of their sons, Greville Macdonald would later become a writer himself and author a biography of his father.
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After a stay in Algiers to gain his health back MacDonald returned to England to tutor and write to provide for his ever-growing family and preach freelance when time permitted.
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However Macdonald found the climate of such benefit to his own maladies that he spent most of the years from 1881 to 1902 in Bordighera, Italy, "Heaven of the English" in his house "Casa Coraggio." His wife was the organist of the Catholic church there and they often held concerts and amateur plays in their home socializing and having a merry time.
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He was educated in country schools where Gaelic myths and Old Testament stories abounded.
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Chesterton, Henry Longfellow, and Walt Whitman were also counted among his friends.
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George MacDonald - Wikiquote
A sigh too deep or a kiss too long, And then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.. . .
Chapter 9 That which is in a man, not that which lies beyond his vision is the main factor in what is about to befall him: the operation upon him is the event.
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I think the reason children get tired of their toys so soon is just that it is against human nature to be really interested in what is of no use.
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From "Life" by George MacDonald (Essay) [edit] Phantastes (1858) Alas! how easily things go wrong!
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Let patience have her perfect work, and bring forth her celestial fruits.
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Is not the diamond that flashes all its colours into the heart of a poet as useful as the diamond with which the glazier divides the sheets of glass into panes for our windows?
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George Macdonald: Biography - The Victorian Web: An Overview
When his daughter had to be taken to Italy for her health in 1877 — a trip which ended in her death — Macdonald found the climate so beneficial to himself that he spent the greater part of each year from 1881 to 1902 at Bordighera, in the house he had built with the aid of friends, Casa Coraggio.. . .
He went to Manchester; was obliged to go to Algiers for the sake of his health, and returned to England resolved to be a professional author.
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Macdonald, after a long illness, died at Ashstead in England in 1905.
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Macdonald lectured chiefly on Burns, and a subscription was made up to reimburse him for losses he had suffered through the pirating of his works in this country.
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His verse is delicate, graceful, and tender in feeling, with a pervading spiritual quality.
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An American lecture tour in 1872 won many friends, including Emerson.
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George MacDonald - Welcome to Paul F. Ford's Web Site
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If you double-click on this file, you will be able to read my analysis of the contents of George MacDonald: An Anthology.
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Lewis Gregorian Chant Joseph Pieper Special Studies in the Eucharist Introduction Liturgy Music Introduction Bibliographies Narnia Notes George MacDonald Introduction Reviews and Praise Reprint Permission Lead Sheets Audio Samples Suggested Uses New Indexes Reflections Introduction Reviews and Praise Reprint Permission Lead Sheets Audio Samples Suggested Uses New Indexes Reflections George MacDonald George MacDonald (1824-1905) was the single greatest human influence on C.
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Lewis collected his favorite passages from George MacDonald's writings in his book, George MacDonald: An Anthology.
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Books by George MacDonald printed and published by Johannesen
"I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him." Preface of C.S.. . .
Lewis reported that his first reading of MacDonald's Phantastes "baptised" his imagination and taught him to love goodness.
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George MacDonald and Michael Phillips Linked with George MacDonald ...
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There are other publishers now making MacDonald books available, as well as additional sources for locating out of print titles.
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This website concerns only the works of Michael Phillips and those MacDonald titles that he has been instrumental in bringing into publication.
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George MacDonald Quotes - BrainyQuote
George MacDonald Quotes - BrainyQuote Home - Quote of the Day - Topics - Authors - Quiz - Words - Professions - Birthdays Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z George MacDonald Quotes 1 - 2 A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.. . .
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George MacDonald It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected.
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George MacDonald Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
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George MacDonald Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
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George MacDonald Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
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Yielding to Christianity - George MacDonald
Recognizing it as the true offender frees us to turn into the Father's embrace.. . .
But most often we can rightly blame the natural life with its laws of chance and probability.
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Lewis Cloud of Unknowing George MacDonald Hannah Whitall Smith Mother Teresa S?ren Kierkegaard John Wesley Martin Luther Buy Now "Driving into the Dawn" From Wheatmark From Amazon "Yielding to Wonder" From Wheatmark From Amazon "Turning Aside to See" From Wheatmark From Amazon Contact the Publisher Webmaster Login George MacDonald George MacDonaldExcerpt from Driving Into The Dawn, page 59 George MacDonald—a 19th century Scottish clergyman who went on to become an influential author and spiritual philosopher.
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Since those early encounters, I follow what MacDonald says about letting my "light shine," while generally avoiding arguments about "God's designs." And, after my saving moment was captured on paper, sharing the written account works best for me.
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What others think, what they are willing to receive or reject, is in the Lord's job description, not mine.
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In spite of such a following, however, MacDonald's reputation gradually declined throughout the 20th century.. . .
MacDonald's most notable champion of the last century was C.S.
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He thus became the foundational member of Wheaton's Wade Center "Seven." After his death, most of MacDonald's books eventually went out of print as his name drifted from memory.
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Lewis persistently acknowledged his debt to MacDonald, whom he called his "master." Lewis wrote: "I dare not say that he is never in error; but...
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I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer... to the Spirit of Christ Himself...
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I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master, indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him." Both in his autobiography and throughout his writing career, Lewis emphasized that George MacDonald was the most significant impetus in his own spiritual pilgrimage.
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George MacDonald (Author of The Princess and the Goblin)
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” - George MacDonald, The Day Boy and the Night Girl tags: heart , love 82 people liked it like “It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is the loving of each other, that originates and perfects and assures their blessedness.
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Lewis that wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read.
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Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.
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Quotes by George MacDonald “To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.” - George MacDonald tags: trust 272 people liked it like “Her heart - like every heart, if only its fallen sides were cleared away - was an inexhaustible fountain of love: she loved everything she saw.
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George MacDonald - HSTreasures.com - HS Treasures
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The Elect Lady or The Landlady's Master This story traces spiritual journeys of three young people.
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" It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." — Elizabeth Yates, an editor for one of MacDonald's novels.
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A quote that will forever stick in my mind from this book is when a scandalous lie is told against Malcolm and he seeks counsel from a virtuous woman who tells him, ..."Let it lay as the devils tail, do not pick it up, for even if you fling it to the end of the earth, it will stick to you.
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They left me encouraged, strengthened and caused me to question priorities, examining What is most important?
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MacDonald authored a few fairy tales stories that I feel are such a contrast from his novels.
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George MacDonald « The Keepers of Enchantment
It's a tricky task, but to my mind, what you might call the 'modern fantasy' came to us in 1858 with the publication of this novel by George MacDonald, and all fantasy novels that came afterward are in some way a result of this novel, or at the very least, a product of the mid-1800s in general.. . .
The prince stays true to his love no matter what, and eventually saves the situation.
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Phantastes (Editorial review Amazon.com ) "I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate chapter of Phantastes.
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Artist, author, radio host, and an expert on being enchanted, not because I have led an 'enchanted' life by any means, but because I am familiar with the inner realms -of imagination.
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At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self.
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The Princess and the Goblin (1872) This wonderful children's novel tells the story of eight year old Princess Irene.
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George MacDonald Quotes (Author of The Princess and the Goblin)
Yet all love will, one day, meet with its return.. . .
Throughout his life on earth, Jesus resisted every impulse to work more rapidly for a lower good.” - George MacDonald 16 people liked it like “Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning.
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In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.
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The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.” - George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Dover Juvenile Classics 15 people liked it like “You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace.
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The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.
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I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.” - George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin (Dover Juvenile Classics 26 people liked it like “A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean.
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