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Title: Lilith by George MacDonald ISBN: 0-8028-6061-3 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 1981 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the few fantasy masterpieces
Comment: The real _masterpieces_ of fantasy, as opposed to the "entertaining reads," are not numerous. This is one of the masterpieces. It is not a perfect book, but it belongs in the company of the greatest, such as
The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion (Tolkien); Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength, and Till We Have Faces (Lewis); The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton); A Wizard of Earthsea (Le Guin); The Owl Service (Garner); Titus Groan and Gormenghast (Peake)... books of that caliber.
Don't miss MacDonald's magnificent tales such as "The Day Boy and the Night Girl" and "The Golden Key."
Read MacDonald's Lilith. If you are so moved, read it in conjunction with the detailed, free study guide available at the MacDonald "Golden Key" website:
Rating: 4
Summary: wake at last
Comment: Lilith is typical MacDonald. It is often tedious. It can leave you guessing as to what exactly is going on. It can leave you downright frustrated with the man. Yet it has moments of brilliance that make the whole endeavor more than worth the struggle. Lilith is one of MacDonald's most mature books. It is much darker than works such as The Princess and the Goblin or At the Back of the North Wind. It has some affinity with the works of MacDonald's friend, Lewis Carroll. At its core, it is an allegory for MacDonald's anti-Calvinist notions of Universalism. For all its obtuseness and periodical preachiness, it is a fine story in the end (I liken it to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, which, for me, was a pain to read--but when it was over I loved the story). Just an aside--you should really read this book and then go on to C.S. Lewis' The Great Divorce. The two books go very well together.
Rating: 2
Summary: Completely Crazy and Unrealistic
Comment: This book is insane. He follows a Raven through a mirror into another world. There is also a lot of reference to the Bible and if you don't know about the Bible you will get lost. The end is also very confusing. The end makes little sense and there is a sense of being unfinished to it. Some parts were ok but the overall book was weird and confusing.
My overall feeling towards the book was that it was weird. Broken up though, parts were ok. The begining was weird and confusing. The middle was pretty good. Escpecially when he is with the Little Ones. The end, however, is horrible. There actually is no end. No one is really sure how it ends because of the abrupt and mysterious ending.
If fairy tales are your thing you might like this book, but if you want to read about something that has any chance of happening this book is not for you.
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Title: Phantastes by George MacDonald ISBN: 0802860605 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: August, 1981 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) by George MacDonald, U. C. Knoepflmacher ISBN: 0140437371 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes ISBN: 0140367462 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald ISBN: 0812567129 Publisher: Tor Classics Pub. Date: 15 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: George MacDonald by C. S. Lewis ISBN: 0060653191 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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