ADELA CATHCART - The Complete Fantasy Tales Series

Excerpt: "I confess I was a little dismayed to find what a solemn turn the club-stories had taken. But this dismay lasted for a moment only; for I saw that Adela was deeply interested, again wearing the look that indicates abstracted thought and feeling. I said to myself: "This is very different mental fare from what you have been used to, Adela." But she seemed able to mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, for she had the appearance of one who is stilled by the strange newness of her thoughts. I was sure that she was now experiencing a consciousness of existence quite different from anything she had known before. But it had a curious outcome." 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 including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L''Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence". Table of Contents: ΓÇó CHRISTMAS EVE ΓÇó CHURCH ΓÇó THE CHRISTMAS DINNER ΓÇó THE NEW DOCTOR ΓÇó THE LIGHT PRINCESS ΓÇó THE BELL ΓÇó THE SCHOOLMASTER''S STORY ΓÇó SONG ΓÇó THE CURATE AND HIS WIFE ΓÇó THE SHADOWS ΓÇó THE EVENING AT THE CURATE''S ΓÇó PERCY AND HIS MOTHER ΓÇó THE BROKEN SWORDS ΓÇó MY UNCLE PETER ΓÇó THE GIANT''S HEART ΓÇó A CHILD''S HOLIDAY ΓÇó INTERRUPTION ΓÇó PERCY ΓÇó THE CRUEL PAINTER ΓÇó THE CASTLE ΓÇó WHAT NEXT? ΓÇó GENERALSHIP ΓÇó AN UNFORESEEN FORESIGHT