George MacDonald
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Pub. Date
1999.
Description
The works of George MacDonald, the Scottish author, poet, and minister, have influenced the likes of W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, Madeleine L'Engle, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain. MacDonald wrote some of the first popular fantasy novels and is best known for his enduring stories, such as "Phantastes", "The Princess and the Goblin", "Lilith", and "At the Back of the North Wind". Macdonald said of his work that he wrote "not for children, but for the...
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Thomas Wingfold Trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c1985
Description
Rev. ed. of: Thomas Wingfold, curate. 1876. Thomas Wingfold, Curate, has settled into his first parish. But his confidence is deeply shaken by the question "Tell me, do you really believe one word of all that?"
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Thomas Wingfold Trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
Richard, an young man who was rescued as an infant from someone who perceived him as a threat, unknowingly returns to the estate of his birth when he is hired as a bookbinder to repair old volumes in the library.
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Thomas Wingfold Trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c1986
Description
"Originally published as Paul Faber, surgeon in 1879 by Hurst & Blackett Publishers, London, as a sequel to Thomas Wingfold, curate (now The curate's awakening)"--T.p. verso. Paul loves Juliet, but discovers a secret from her past he can't accept.
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Pub. Date
2000, ©1980
Description
Contains four stories by ninteenth-century fantasy writer George MacDonald, including the title selection in which a young boy who lives on the fringes of Fairyland finds the golden key at the end of the rainbow and is joined by a lovely companion in a lifelong quest for its corresponding lock.