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Adela Cathcart, Volume II of III by George Macdonald, Fiction, Fantasy

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Adela Cathcart, Volume II of III by George Macdonald, Fiction, Fantasy

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But her uncle John -- not a blood relation, but a friend of her father's who goes by the name "John Smith" -- has a notion. He notices that as the neighbors tell an anecdote to one another in her presence Adelia seems for a moment to come back to life. We should read her stories, he says. Beautiful, beautiful stories. Now they read the tale of "The Broken Swords," a story of two sisters and a brother who gaze for the last time on a great pale-golden star that followed the sun down the steep west. It went down to arise again; and the brother about to depart might return, but more than the usual doubt hung upon his future. For between the white dresses of the sisters, shone his scarlet coat and golden sword-knot, which he had put on for the first time, more to gratify their pride than his own vanity. The brightening moon, as if prophetic of a future memory, had already begun to dim the scarlet and the gold, and to give them a pale, ghostly hue. And slowly, slowly, Adelia begins to recover. . . .

Author Biography

George MacDonald (1824 - 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. 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."
Release date Australia
December 1st, 2002
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Imprint
Borgo Press
Pages
180
Publisher
Borgo Press
Dimensions
152x229x14
ISBN-13
9781592247912
Product ID
12042723

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