The Gray Wolf and Other Stories - Softcover

MacDonald, George

 
9780802818621: The Gray Wolf and Other Stories
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802818625 ISBN 13: 9780802818621
Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1980

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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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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian Congregational clergyman. He established himself as a pioneering figure in modern fantasy writing and mentored fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy stories, MacDonald wrote various works on Christian theology, including sermon collections. George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father, a farmer, descended from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe and was a direct descendant of one of the families killed in the 1692 massacre. MacDonald was raised in an exceptionally literary household: one of his maternal uncles was a renowned Celtic scholar, editor of the Gaelic Highland Dictionary, and collector of fairy stories and Celtic oral poetry. His paternal grandfather had helped to publish an edition of James Macpherson's Ossian, a contentious epic poem based on the Fenian Cycle of Celtic Mythology that contributed to the birth of European Romanticism. MacDonald's step-uncle was a Shakespeare scholar, while his paternal cousin was also a Celtic intellectual.

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Part of a newly illustrated set of four paperbacks holding the complete fantasy stories (except for several longer stories readily available elsewhere) of George MacDonald.

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Verlag
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
1980
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0802818625
ISBN 13 
9780802818621
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
196
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