At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated Edition)

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Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book At the Back of the North Wind (Illustrated Edition) written by George MacDonald and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond and his adventures with the North Wind. Diamond is a very sweet little boy who makes joy everywhere he goes. He fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft wall to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him ride on her back, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also does seemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good. The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good. 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".

Diamond and the North Wind

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Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781543949964
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Diamond and the North Wind written by George MacDonald and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond and the North Wind is an illustrated story about a boy living in London in the 1800s. His father is a coachman for a rich gentleman and their family lives in his carriage house. Diamond is visited by the North Wind who takes him with her as she does her work. This story is an excerpt from the classic fairy tale At the Back of the North Wind, written by beloved Scottish author, George MacDonald, and first printed in 1871.

The Princess and the Goblin

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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book The Princess and the Goblin written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A Dish of Orts

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Total Pages : 334 pages
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Download or read book A Dish of Orts written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Phantastes

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Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sir Gibbie

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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Sir Gibbie written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ahren

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781790804412
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis Ahren by : Torsten Weitze

Download or read book Ahren written by Torsten Weitze and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-12-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ahren can hardly believe his luck. His normal life consists of being beaten up by his drunkard father or bullied by the village lads. But at the annual suitability tests for apprenticeships, the young boy finds himself selected by Falk, the guardian of the forest, to be his apprentice and his world is turned upside down.From his new master he learns the skills of archery and how to fight the Dark Ones. And then, on the day of the Spring Ceremony there is another unexpected turn of events. He touches the Stone of the Gods and it illuminates for the first time ever. It isn't long before a cantankerous wizard turns up and urges Falk and Ahren into action. There is no time to waste, for something evil is awakening.The unlikely trio begin their dangerous journey to Evergreen, the elfish kingdom to get the elves' help. But time is running out. HE, WHO FORCES has his eyes trained on Ahren and nothing will stop him from destroying the young man.Let yourself be swept into the fantastic world of Jorath by diving into AHREN, THE THIRTEENTH PALADIN (volume 1). For all fans of J.R.R. Tolkien's THE LORD OF THE RINGS and David Edding's BELGARIAD.

The Christian Goddess

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Publisher : Government Institutes
ISBN 13 : 1611470099
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christian Goddess by : Bonnie Gaarden

Download or read book The Christian Goddess written by Bonnie Gaarden and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald, examines this British Victorian writer's employment of female figures to represent Deity. Such symbolism is extremely unusual for a Christian author of this period and anticipates the efforts of many modern theologians to develop an image of God as Mother. Bonnie Gaarden reads the goddess-figures in MacDonald's fantasies as both archetypes of the collective unconscious and as emblems articulating MacDonald's unique Christian theology, which is Trinitarian, Neo-Platonic, mystical and universalist. The goddesses become the central figures around which the author develops her interpretations of MacDonald's adult fantasy-novels, his children's books and some of his fairy tales. These readings discover MacDonald's ideas about God and the nature of good and evil, models of spiritual and psychological development that foreshadow the theories of Carl Jung and Eric Neumann, and acerbic commentary on the values and customs of Victorian society and religion. According to The Christian Goddess, MacDonald's Romantic belief in God's self-revelation in Nature led him to create Nature-mothers (such as the Green Lady in 'The Golden Key' and Lilith's Eve) which evoke both the Great Mother archetype described by Eric Neumann, and the modern neopagan Great Mother as developed in the works of James Frazer, Robert Graves, and Marija Gimutas. MacDonald dramatized his view of evil and its cure in the title character of Lilith, a Terrible Mother archetype historically embodied in the Hindu goddess Kali. MacDonald's notion of the world as Keat's 'vale of Soulmaking,' also elaborated by religious philosopher John Hick, is conveyed by Magic Cauldron archetypes in The Wise Woman, 'The Gray Wolf,' and Lilith. Muse-figures in Phantastes and At the Back of the North Wind express MacDonald's conviction that a 'right imagination' is the voice of God, while Divine Children in The Wise Woman and 'The Golden Key' communicate his belief that 'true childhood' is the Divine nature. The great-grandmother in the Princess books, a personification of the multi-dimensional activity of Divine Wisdom, springs from the Judeo-Christian Sophia and the classical Athena, while Kore figures in The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, and Phantastes re-present the transforming descents of Persephone and Christ. This book shows MacDonald's fantasies as a chronological bridge, anchored in the traditions of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, incorporating the teachings of Christian mysticism and theistic Romanticism, and linking to the contemporary concerns in Western society that have given birth to the New Age. The Christian goddess portrayed in these fantasies may strike the reader as a Deity whose time has come.

Doors In

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532643837
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Doors In by : Rolland Hein

Download or read book Doors In written by Rolland Hein and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald wrote fairy tales for both children and adults to demonstrate the essential role of the imagination in apprehending spiritual truths. He explained: ". . . undefined, yet vivid visions of something beyond, something which eye has not seen nor ear heard, have far more influence than any logical sequences whereby the same things may be demonstrated to the intellect." Rolland Hein undertakes to show how MacDonald's tales contain such visions, helping readers to experience for themselves glimpses of "something beyond" and catch exciting insights into eternal truths.

The Complete Fairy Tales

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101651377
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales written by George MacDonald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.

Sir Gibbie

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ISBN 13 : 3368430955
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Sir Gibbie written by George MacDonald and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Phantastes (Illustrated Edition)

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Total Pages : 207 pages
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Download or read book Phantastes (Illustrated Edition) written by George MacDonald and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald. The story centers on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. It concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and over there he hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. 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".

The George MacDonald Treasury

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ISBN 13 : 9780978891435
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The George MacDonald Treasury written by George McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanted collection brings together eight of George McDonald's most well known fantasies into one delightful volume. The George McDonald Treasury includes The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, The Light Princess, Phantastes, The Giant's Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, The Golden Key, and Lilith. MacDonald's classic works have inspired deep admiration in such notables as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Elizabeth Yates, and Lewis Carroll. C. S. Lewis wrote, "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." One day while in a train station, he picked up a copy of Phantastes and began to read. "A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." Madeleine L'Engle wrote, "Surely George MacDonald is the grandfather of us all-all of us who struggle to come to terms with truth through imagination." If you loved J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, you will love the works of his hero and model - George McDonald.

The Princess and Curdie

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Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Princess and Curdie written by George MacDonald and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1888 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gospel in George MacDonald

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Publisher : Gospel in Great Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780874867664
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Gospel in George MacDonald written by George MacDonald and published by Gospel in Great Writers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Appreciations by C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton"--Cover.

The Poet and the Pauper

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Publisher : Bethany House Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780764226595
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Poet and the Pauper written by George MacDonald and published by Bethany House Pub. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of "Wee Sir Gibbie of the Highlands," a seemingly destitute orphan whose life communicates truth and goodness despite his inability to speak, and the story of Gibbie's best friend, Donal Grant.

Crossing a Great Frontier

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ISBN 13 : 9781935688402
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (884 download)

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Book Synopsis Crossing a Great Frontier by : John Pennington

Download or read book Crossing a Great Frontier written by John Pennington and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing a Great Frontier collects twenty-one hard-to-find scholarly essays about Phantastes into one convenient volume. In his comprehensive introduction, editor John Pennington describes the essays as reflecting four main perspectives about Phantastes as a religious work, a structurally coherent work, an insightful psychological work, and within its cultural/literary context. The book's title is derived from C.S. Lewis who wrote that after reading Phantastes, he knew he had "crossed a great frontier. Lewis's praise for MacDonald influenced more people to read MacDonald. His comments, however, diminished MacDonald's reputation as a skilled writer. Crossing a Great Frontier presents indisputable proof that Lewis underestimated the skill of his 19th century mentor. Readers will discover a multitude of insights into a book and author whose genius continues to be revealed. John Pennington, professor of English at St. Norbert College, specializes in Victorian fairy tales and is the editor of North Wind: The Journal of George MacDonald Studies.