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The Gray Wolf, and Other Fantasy Stories
- Author
- George MacDonald
- Narrator
- Thomas Whitworth
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 March 2017
- Run Time
- 6 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, who influenced the work of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories, including "The Gray Wolf," "The Cruel Painter," "The Broken Swords," "The Wow O'Rivven, the Bell" "Uncle Cornelius, His Story," "The Butcher's Bills," and "Birth, Dreaming, Death."
"I do not write," MacDonald once said, "for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." Here then, for the childlike of all ages, is a collection of seven stories certain to delight both confirmed MacDonald readers and those about to meet him for the first time.
Critics Review
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“What George MacDonald does best is fantasy—fantasy that hovers between the allegorical and the mythopoeic. And this, in my opinion, he does better than any man.”
C. S. Lewis
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“Surely George MacDonald is the grandfather of us all—all of us who struggle to come to terms with truth through fantasy."
Madeline L’Engle
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“George MacDonald is preeminently a mythopoeic writer…. In his power to project his inner life into images, beings, landscapes which are valid for all, he is one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth centry.”
W. H. Auden
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Details
- Author
- George MacDonald
- Narrator
- Thomas Whitworth
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Release Date
- 14 March 2017
- ISBN
- 9781538422342
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories
Synopsis
George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, who influenced the work of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories, including "The Gray Wolf," "The Cruel Painter," "The Broken Swords," "The Wow O'Rivven, the Bell" "Uncle Cornelius, His Story," "The Butcher's Bills," and "Birth, Dreaming, Death.""I do not write," MacDonald once said, "for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." Here then, for the childlike of all ages, is a collection of seven stories certain to delight both confirmed MacDonald readers and those about to meet him for the first time.
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