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George MacDonald, 1824-1905
Selected works
1855 Within and Without: A Poem 1857 Poems 1858 Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women 1863 David Elginbrod [Scottish setting]
1864 The
Portent; A Story of the Inner Vision of the Highlanders Commonly Called
the Second Adela Cathcart [English setting] [a revised edition in 1882 omits fantasy stories that were later reprinted elsewhere] 1865 Alec Forbes of Howglen [Scottish setting] 1867 Unspoken Sermons The Disciple and Other Poems Dealings with Fairies [Fantasy stories] Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood [English setting] 1868 Robert Falconer [Scottish setting] A Seaboard Parish: A Sequel to “Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood” [English setting] 1870 The Miracles of Our Lord 1871 Works of Fancy and Imagination (10 vols.) [Fantasy stories & poetry] At the Back of the North Wind [Fantasy ; Reprinted often] 1872 The Princess and the Goblin [Fantasy ; Reprinted often]
The
Vicars Daughter. Autobiographical Story, being a Sequel to "Annals of a
Quiet Wilfrid Cumbermede; An Autobiographical Story 1875 Malcolm [Scottish setting] 1876 Thomas Wingfold, Curate 1877 The Marquis of Lossie [A sequel to Malcolm] 1879 Paul Faber, Surgeon [English setting] Sir Gibbie [Scottish setting] 1880 A Book of Strife, in the Form of the “Diary of an Old Soul” [Poetry] 1882 The Gifts of the Child Christ (2 vols.) [Fantasy stories] 1883 The Princess and Curdie [Fantasy ; Reprinted often] Donal Grant [A sequel to Sir Gibbie] 1886 Unspoken Sermons: Second Series 1889 Unspoken Sermons: Third Series 1892 The Hope of the Gospel 1893 Poetical Works 2 vols. A Dish of Orts [Essays] The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales [Fantasy stories] 1895 Lilith, a Romance [Fantasy] 1904 The Fairy Tales 1905 Phantastes [Reprint of 1858 edition with illustrations]
Selected later anthologies & reprints
1946 George MacDonald, an Anthology / ed. C. S. Lewis [Mostly
excerpts from Unspoken Sermons] 1964 Phantastes and Lilith / intro. C. S. Lewis. 1973 The Gifts of the Child Christ; Fairytales and Stories for the Childlike / ed. Glenn E. Sadler. An Expression of Character: The Letters of George MacDonald / ed. Glen E. Sadler.
Johannesen Publishers (Whitehorn, CA) has made available facsimile reprints of almost all of MacDonald’s works in the 1990’s. N.B.: Stay away from the many modern edited, reworded & retold versions of MacDonald’s works; these are plentiful, but certainly not desirable.
Selected works about MacDonald
John M.
Bulloch. "A Bibliography of George MacDonald" in Aberdeen University
Library Bulletin
Rolland Hein.
The Harmony Within; The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald. Grand
Rapids: Rolland Hein. George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker. Nashville: Star Song, 1993. Joseph Johnson. George MacDonald: A Biographical and Critical Appreciation. London: Pitman, 1906. Greville MacDonald. George MacDonald and His Wife. London: Allen & Unwin, 1924. [written by one of MacDonald’s sons]
Ronald
MacDonald. "George MacDonald: A Personal Note" in From a Northern Window.
London:
Roderick
McGillis. “George MacDonald” in Dictionary of Literary Biography 163:
British Children’s
Colin Manlove.
"George MacDonald" in Modern Fantasy: Five Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge
Colin Manlove.
“George MacDonald” in Scottish Fantasy Literature: A Critical Survey.
Edinburgh:
Colin Manlove.
“George MacDonald’s Fairy Tales” in Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the
Present.
William Raeper
(ed.). The Golden Thread: Essays on George MacDonald. Edinburgh University
William Raeper. George MacDonald. Tring, Herts: Lion Publishing, 1987.
Richard H.
Reis. George MacDonald. New York: Twayne, 1972. (Twayne's English Authors
David S. Robb. George MacDonald. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1987.
Glenn E.
Sadler. Cosmic Vision: A Study of the Poetry of George MacDonald Ph.D.
dissertation.
William Webb.
George MacDonald: A Study of Two Novels. Salzburg Studies in English
Literature,
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