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The light princess, and other fairy tales. By: George Macdonald: (Children's Classics) Illustrated By: Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 - 1940) was a com

The light princess, and other fairy tales. By: George Macdonald: (Children's Classics) Illustrated By: Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 - 1940) was a com

Humphrey, Maud
MacDonald, George

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1537514032
ISBN13: 9781537514031
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 6 2016
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.31 Width: 7.99 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master . . . The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live. --C. S. Lewis One of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century --W. H. Auden THE LIGHT PRINCESS When the Light Princess was born, somebody screwed up an invitation to her christening and left out her evil aunt. Who was a witch! That evil aunt vented her spleen by casting a spell on the Princess that left her immune to gravity. Which was a strange (and often inconvenient!) way for things to be -- more than once the wind caught hold of her while she slept, and you can go the most amazing places on the wind if you have no weight. Then, when the princess got to be a young woman, she met a young prince and fell in love -- and the results of that love are the very essence of this tale . . . Also included in this volume are The Giant's Heart, The Golden Key, Cross Purposes, and The Shadows... Maud Humphrey (March 30, 1868 - 1940) was a commercial illustrator, water colorist, and suffragette from the United States. She was also the mother of actor Humphrey Bogart and would frequently use her young son as a model.... George MacDonald (10 December 1824 - 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle.C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his master: Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later, said Lewis, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had made a difference to my whole existence. Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling. Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.Christian author Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) wrote in Christian Disciplines, vol. 1, (pub. 1934) that it is a striking indication of the trend and shallowness of the modern reading public that George MacDonald's books have been so neglected. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works on Christian apologetics including several that defended his view of Christian Universalis

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