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Diary
of an Old Soul : 366 Writings for Devotional Reflection.
In this new edition of a popular classic, the Scottish poet and novelist
George MacDonald (1824-1905) offers prayer for each day of the year.
Seemingly simple, the poetic prayers spring from a deep understanding
of the personal relationship between God and the individual Christian.
"The whole," MacDonald's son remarked, "is a record
of a life's rather than a year's religious thought."
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The
Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics)
An authoritative edition of the shorter fairy tales of George MacDonald
who occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian
contemporaries, and his dazzling fairy tales earned him the admiration
of such twentieth-century writers as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien,
and W. H. Auden. Employing paradox, play, and nonsense, like Lewis
Carroll's Alice books, MacDonald's fairy tales offer an elusive yet
meaningful alternative order to the dubious certitudes of everyday
life.
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At
the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald's best-known fantasy has enchanted generations of
children and adults since it was first published in London over a
century ago. Considered to be a landmark in the development of the
children's novel, this enthralling fairy tale is just as endearing
today.
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The
Princess and the Goblin
As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets
the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world.
Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess
and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good
friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful
great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of
the castle stairs.
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Lilith
"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the
great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison
only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this
late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting
a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not
to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr.
Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into
which it leads him.
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Phantastes
"I was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the
penultimate chapter of Phantastes. C.S. Lewis said that upon reading
this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great
frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt
similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and
(like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly
represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of
its depth and meaning.
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Unspoken
Sermons-Series I, II, III
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The
Harmony Within : The Spiritual Vision of George MacDonald
by Rolland Hein
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The
Wise Woman and Other Stories
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A
Charles Williams Reader
This reader brings together three of Charles Williams’s best-known
novels— Descent into Hell, Many Dimensions, and War in Heaven.
These powerful stories represent the high point of Charles Williams’s
genius and illustrate the mystically and theologically oriented themes
so characteristic of his work. Whether read independently or as a
loose trilogy, each of these psychological thrillers explores our
very real relation to the supernatural world lying just behind the
appearances of daily life.
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Waiting
for God by Simone Weil
Camus described her as 'the patron saint of outsiders'. The daughter
of an agnostic French family of Jewish descent, Weil was never baptized
("God does not want me in the Church," she wrote), and her
conversion to Christianity at the age of 23 took her by surprise.
Until then, she had been a solemn, committed leftist intellectual.
Now she was moving toward a life of divine encounters whose desolate
ecstasy, as described by the journals, letters, and essays excerpted
in Waiting for God, bear comparison to St. John of the Cross and Teresa
of Avila.
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Gravity
and Grace by Simone Weil
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Sleuthing
C. S. Lewis: More Light in the Shadowlands
Kathryn Lindskoog
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