Fantasy Classics: Adela Cathcart Edition – Complete Tales in One Volume

This unique collection of Adela Cathcart's complete fantasy tales has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards.

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:

CHRISTMAS EVE

CHURCH

THE CHRISTMAS DINNER

THE NEW DOCTOR

THE LIGHT PRINCESS

THE BELL

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S STORY

SONG

THE CURATE AND HIS WIFE

THE SHADOWS

THE EVENING AT THE CURATE'S

PERCY AND HIS MOTHER

THE BROKEN SWORDS

MY UNCLE PETER

THE GIANT'S HEART

A CHILD'S HOLIDAY

INTERRUPTION

PERCY

THE CRUEL PAINTER

THE CASTLE

WHAT NEXT?

GENERALSHIP

AN UNFORESEEN FORESIGHT