Four stories about keys are selected from several books of fairy tales from different sources. These tales are designed to be fascinating reading for young children. The tales are: (1) The Golden Key, (2) The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, (3) The Key of the Temple of Heaven, and (4) The Master Key. Children have enjoyed reading these fairy tales for years and it is good to find them in one single volume. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories.
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
MacDonald grew up influenced by his Congregational Church, with an atmosphere of Calvinism. But MacDonald never felt comfortable with some aspects of Calvinist doctrine; indeed, legend has it that when the doctrine of predestination was first explained to him, he burst into tears (although assured that he was one of the elect). Later novels, such as Robert Falconer and Lilith, show a distaste for the idea that God's electing love is limited to some and denied to others.
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