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“Alas! how easily things go wrong!”

Quote by George MacDonald

Book:Phantastes: A Faerie Romance

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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance

This seminal work of the fantasy genre is a narrative that intertwines elements of Christian allegory with the rich tapestry of fairy tales. The protagonist, Annesley, embarks on a quest that mirrors the human soul's journey through various stages of life and spiritual awakening. The novel is renowned for its vivid descriptions of an enchanted realm and its influence on the development of modern fantasy literature. more

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George MacDonald

George MacDonald was a 19th-century Scottish author known for his fantasy literature and religious thought. His works had a profound influence on later writers, such as J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. more

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“All that man sees has to do with man. Worlds cannot be without an intermundane relationship. The community of the centre of all creation suggests an interradiating connection and dependence of the parts. Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already embodied.”

Men World Ideas Community Creation Connections Centre Dependence

Book:Visionary Novels: Lilith, Phantastes

Source: Visionary Novels: Lilith, Phantastes

“But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!”

Ifs Men Way Trying May Children Let Me Misery Possession

Book:The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction

Source: The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction

“Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.”

Giving Heart Made Jesus Thee Oppressed Weary

Book:The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)

Source: The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)

“Diamond, however, had not been out so late before in all his life, and things looked so strange about him! - just as if he had got into Fairyland, of which he knew quite as much as anybody; for his mother had no money to buy books to set him wrong on the subject.”

Ifs Book Mother Subjects Strange Late Diamond No Money

Book:Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

Source: Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…

“God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home.”

Thinking Knows Men Home Judging Judgment His Love

Author:George MacDonald

“I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.”

Ifs Writing Draws Horse

Book:The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more

“If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.”

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.”

Hands Lying Next Failing Good Things Discouraged

Author:George MacDonald

“Not even nothingness preceded life. Nothingness owes its very idea to existence.”

Ideas Existence Nothingness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.”

Ifs World Feels Use Form Law Desire Liberty Senses Regions Thinker

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Source: The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more