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George MacDonald, described by W. H. Auden as “one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century,” was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing, it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination. This collection includes all eleven stories, including “The Light Princess,” “The Golden Key,” and “The Wise Woman.” The fairy tales feature the stock characters of traditional tales—fairies both good and bad and children undertaking precarious journeys. Often adopting paradox and nonsense as Lewis Carroll did, the stories invite adults to deploy the same open-mindedness as children. In MacDonald’s own words, “I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or 50, or 75.”
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George MacDonald, described by W. H. Auden as “one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century,” was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing, it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination.
This collection includes all eleven stories, including “The Light Princess,” “The Golden Key,” and “The Wise Woman.”
The fairy tales feature the stock characters of traditional tales—fairies both good and bad and children undertaking precarious journeys. Often adopting paradox and nonsense as Lewis Carroll did, the stories invite adults to deploy the same open-mindedness as children.
In MacDonald’s own words, “I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or 50, or 75.”
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Author Bio: George MacDonald
George MacDonald (1824–1905), Scottish children’s author and novelist, was educated at Aberdeen University before training as a Congregational minister. Finding his own individualistic views unacceptable to his parish, he gradually turned to literature. He published over fifty volumes of fiction, verse, children’s stories, and sermons but is remembered chiefly for his fairy stories, including The Princess and the Goblin (1872) and its sequel The Princess and Curdie (1873).
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Fantasy |
| Runtime: | 14.11 |
| Audience: | Young Adult (12–17) |
| Language: | English |
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