Michael Phillips - George MacDonald: A Writers Life

George
MacDonald A
Writers Life

Michael Phillips

Introductory material 2018 by Michael Phillips

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Electronic edition published 2018 by RosettaBooks
ISBN (Kindle): 978-0-7953-5273-7
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The Cullen Collection

of the Fiction of George MacDonald

New editions of George MacDonalds classic fiction works updated and introduced by Michael Phillips

MICHAEL PHILLIPS, a devotional writer and best-selling novelist, has published more than a hundred original titles spanning a forty-year writing career from 1977 to the present. In addition to his own fiction, he is widely known for his work in bringing the writings of Victorian George MacDonald back into print in the 1980s when MacDonalds reputation was nearly lost to public view. His major biography of MacDonald (George MacDonald Scotlands Beloved Storyteller) accompanied twenty-six reissued edited fiction and non-fiction titles by MacDonald that reestablished MacDonalds stature in the twentieth century as a Christian visionary with singular insight into the nature of God and his eternal purposes. Phillips is also editor of The Masterline Series of studies about George MacDonald, and publisher of The Sunrise Centenary Editions of the Works of George MacDonald. When this new series of fiction titles is complete, he will have produced eighty-five editions of MacDonalds work. Through the years Phillips has come to be recognized as a man with keen insight into the life, ideas, theology, and heart of George MacDonald. His ongoing MacDonald studies and research have also produced the titles: George MacDonalds Spiritual Vision, George MacDonald and the Late Great Hell Debate, George MacDonalds Transformational Theology of the Christian Faith, Bold Thinking Christianity, The Commands, and The Commands of the Apostles.

Warm and sincere thanks to those who have contributed to the research, fact-checking, proofing, and with much other assistance for the volumes of The Cullen Collection, including but not limited to: David Hiatt, Lora Hattendorf, Joseph Dindinger, Rolland Hein, Dan Cook, Barbara Amell, Christopher MacDonald, Karen Pardieck, Daniel Speake, Jess Lederman, David Jack, Karen Furber, Jean Damon, Laurie Edwards, Jim Motter, Sue Mollenkamp, Sarah Romanov, Ruthie Petit, Tom Petit, GlenAnn Egan, Dorothy Perry, Janet Montgomery, Judy Phillips, and of course, where they are now all togetherElizabeth Yates, C.S. Lewis, and George MacDonald himself.

ORDERING THE CULLEN COLLECTION : Titles in The Cullen Collection, individually or as a complete set, as well as additional books by and about George MacDonald, are available singly from Amazon, from WISEPATHBOOKS.COM (distributor of The Sunrise Centenary Editions of the Works of George MacDonald), and from FATHEROFTHEINKLINGS.COM. Quantity and full-set discounts available only from TheCullenCollection.com. All titles of The Cullen Collection also available on Kindle from Amazon. Since the printing of the Introductory Edition of this book, a new Cullen Collection Readers Guide has been produced and is available with the other titles of The Cullen Collection.

NOTE TO READERS : In the preparation and production of this book and the volumes of The Cullen Collection, every effort has been made to insure accuracy and to provide an error free text. In spite of fact checks by knowledgeable MacDonald scholars and multiple proof-readings, mistakes, typos, computer glitches, and other inaccuracies will surely have crept in. This is inevitable when dealing with documents and texts from over a century in the past about which information is both scanty and conflicting. All MacDonald research is ongoing. New facts and insights will continue to be revealed. If you find a misprint or what you suspect to be an inaccuracy in any of the volumes of the series, we would be most grateful if you would call it to our attention, especially concerning varying textual editions of MacDonalds novels that were unknown at the time of publication. As emphasized in Appendix 1, while not attempting an exhaustive list of editions, we are yet desirous of further information that we have not had access to in order to improve the accuracy of further editions of this volume. We will be most appreciative of your assistance in improving the accuracy of successive printings, keeping them error free and consistent with current MacDonald research.

The Cullen Collection of the Fiction of George MacDonald

1.Phantastes(1858)

2.David Elginbrod(1863)

3.The Portent(1864)

4.Adela Cathcart(1864)

5.Alec Forbes of Howglen(1865)

6.Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood(1867)

7.Robert Falconer(1868)

8.Guild Court(1868)

9.The Seaboard Parish(1868)

10.At the Back of the North Wind(1871)

11.Ranald Bannermans Boyhood(1871)

12.The Princess and the Goblin(1872)

13.Wilfrid Cumbermede(1872)

14.The Vicars Daughter(1872)

15.Gutta Percha Willie(1873)

16.Malcolm(1875)

17.The Wise Woman(1875)

18.St. George and St. Michael(1876)

19.Thomas Wingfold Curate(1876)

20.The Marquis of Lossie(1877)

21.Paul Faber Surgeon(1879)

22.Sir Gibbie(1879)

23.Mary Marston(1881)

24.Castle Warlock(1881)

25.The Princess and Curdie(1882)

26.Weighed and Wanting(1882)

27.Donal Grant(1883)

28.Whats Mines Mine(1886)

29.Home Again(1887)

30.The Elect Lady(1888)

31.A Rough Shaking(1890)

32.There and Back(1891)

33.The Flight of the Shadow(1891)

34.Heather and Snow(1893)

35.Lilith(1895)

36.Salted With Fire(1897)

37.Far Above Rubies(1898)

38.George MacDonald A Writers Life

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