George Macdonald

Guild Court (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Phillips, Michael

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Dickensian novel of London society and of a man who breathes spiritual life into his surroundings-from the Victorian-era author of Robert Falconer. Following on the heels of Robert Falconer's hugely influential and controversial story, Guild Court, written concurrently with Falconerand published the same year, is one of MacDonald's lesser known novels. A love story set in London, its portrait of many intertwining and quirky lives in and around a city court is perhaps the most Dickens-like of MacDonald's novels. Though not a book that enjoyed such widespread circulation as his others, Guild Courtyet contains many of the signature tunes found throughout George MacDonald's fictional corpus, and presents a powerful story of repentance, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: RosettaBooks
• Seitenzahl: 373
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780795352065
• Artikelnr.: 60309820

Autorenporträt

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian Congregational clergyman. He established himself as a pioneering figure in modern fantasy writing and mentored fellow writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy stories, MacDonald wrote various works on Christian theology, including sermon collections. George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father, a farmer, descended from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe and was a direct descendant of one of the families killed in the 1692 massacre. MacDonald was raised in an exceptionally literary household: one of his maternal uncles was a renowned Celtic scholar, editor of the Gaelic Highland Dictionary, and collector of fairy stories and Celtic oral poetry. His paternal grandfather had helped to publish an edition of James Macpherson's Ossian, a contentious epic poem based on the Fenian Cycle of Celtic Mythology that contributed to the birth of European Romanticism. MacDonald's step-uncle was a Shakespeare scholar, while his paternal cousin was also a Celtic intellectual.