Description
Very Good dust jacket shows aging at spine and along edges, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good condition binding is gray cloth over boards with gray lettering on spine. Inside front cover shows some discoloration. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 7.6″ tall x 5.2″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Readers of CS. Lewis’s recent book, “The Great Divorce” will see member that the spirit of George Macdonald was the author’s guide through the heavenly regions. Macdonald was also Lewis’s actual guide and stimulus in his literary work while he had never known him, he was deeply influenced by Macdonald’s old’s books. Thus in compiling the present anthology, Lewis is paying off a debt of gratitude. “I have never written a book.” he says, “in which I do not quote from him. In making these extracts Lewis has been concerned with Macdonald not as a writer primarily but as a Christian teacher-many of the quotations used are from “Unspoken Sermons.” Much wise philosophy and spiritual stimulus will be found in the pages of this new anthology.
If Mr. Lewis’s book has anything like the circulation it deserves,” says I be Manchester Guardian, it is safe to forecast that there will be a brisk demand for Macdonald’s works in the near future.
About the author (from the dust jacket)
George Macdonald was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, in 1824. He took his M.A. at Kings College, Aberdeen, then studied for the Congregational ministry. After some years as a Congregational minister, he resigned due largely to his independence of spirit-and devoted his time entirely to writing and lecturing.
A tall, fine-looking Scotchman, son of a crofter, George Macdonald was a simple, unassuming man, entirely uninterested in financial success. He wrote both poetry and prose-books for children like “‘At the Back of the North Wind and “The Princess and Curdie”-many novels of simple Scots life: a “faerie romance”–“Phantastes”–and, interestingly enough, “Letters from Hell,’ His “‘Unspoken Sermons,’ from which C. S. Lewis has quoted very extensively in this anthology, was one of his most important books.
George Macdonald came on a lecture tour to America in 1872 where he made friends with Longfellow, Holmes and Emerson. He died in England in 1905.
