Novels by George Macdonald: Lilith, the Princess and the Goblin, at the Back of the North Wind, Mary Marston, David Elginbrod, Phantastes

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lilith, the Princess and the Goblin, at the Back of the North Wind, Mary Marston, David Elginbrod, Phantastes, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Alec Forbes of Howglen, What's Mine's Mine, the Day Boy and the Night Girl, the Lost Princess, the Princess and Curdie, Sir Gibbie, the Elect Lady. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death and salvation. Many believe that MacDonald is arguing for Christian universalism, or the idea that all will eventually be saved. Mr. Vane, the protagonist of Lilith, owns a library that seems to be haunted by the former librarian, who looks much like a raven from the brief glimpses he catches of the wraith. After finally encountering the supposed ghost, the mysterious Mr. Raven, Vane learns that Raven had known his father; indeed, Vane's father had visited the strange parallel universe from which Raven comes and goes and now resides therein. Vane follows Raven into the world through a mirror (this symbolistic realm is described as "the region of the seven dimensions," a term taken from Jacob Boehme). Inside the world, Vane learns of a house of beds where the dreamers sleep until the end of the world in death: a good death, in which life is found. Vane's grandfather refused to sleep there and is, instead, forced to do battle with skeletons in a haunted wood. After a treacherous journey through a val...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=88088booksllc.net/?id=88088