The groundbreaking Victorian-era fantasy from the Scottish literary master. " Without question one of the cornerstones of the genre."— Black GateGeorge MacDonald's first major fiction work, in MacDonald's words "a sort of fairy tale for grown people," Phantastes was published in 1858. This unusual fantasy, subtitled a "faerie romance," is one of MacDonald's most mysterious and esoteric titles. The book's narrator, Anodos, enters F...

Hidden Jihad opens at mid-century, in 2050, two years after the election of Jefferson Rhodes. At a lavish extravaganza at the Western White House, President Rhodes asks his old college friend Mark Forster to join his administration as head of a Commission on Religious Unity, his disingenuous attempt to appear inclusive toward religion. A significant encounter takes place between Heather Marshall and journalist Todd Stewart, who, unlikely opposites, hit it off and fall in love as the story ...

The editor of Discovering the Character of God presents further devotional selections from the poetry, sermons, and stories of George Macdonald.One of the nineteenth-century's greatest thinkers, George MacDonald has inspired generations with his fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Now his words of wisdom are available in a series of devotionals compiled and edited by MacDonald scholar and biographer, Michael Phillips.Knowing the Heart of God ...

The 19th-century British author's fantastical masterpiece, "the first text to employ the idea of going through a mirror into another world" ( The List , "100 Best Scottish Books of All Time").Subtitled, a little oddly, "A Romance," which assuredly it is not, eight distinct manuscript versions of Lilith exist, chronicling the book's fitful development under MacDonald's pen until its release in 189...

Freedom Manifesto opens in the summer of 2051 with a leaked news story that Charles Reyburn and former presidential candidate Harvey Jansen are planning a bid to unseat Jefferson Rhodes in the 2052 election. A resurgence of Christianity is the one factor Rhodes cannot control and he becomes obsessed with the threat he perceives Christianity represents. Mike Bardolf begins working on a secret document called Freedom Manifesto which outlines massive changes to turn the United States into a c...

First in the series from the author who "has the unique ability to re-create not merely the feel but the impact of the classic George MacDonald novels" (Bodie and Brock Thoene, bestselling authors of the Zion Covenant series).After being sent to his uncle's estate, young Percy Drummond has no intention of letting the country atmosphere soften his rebellious ways. Then he meets a village girl, Gwyneth Barrie, and her friendship changes his life.When Percy late...

In this bestselling series set in pre-revolutionary Russia, both a peasant and a princess face the prospect of their beloved country being torn apart by conflict within and without.1 The Crown and the Crucible2 A House Divided3 Travail and Triumph4 Heirs of the Motherland5 Dawning of Deliverance6 White Nights, Red Morning7 Passage Into Light

A gothic ghost story of romance, adventure, and the supernatural from the acclaimed 19th-century author of Phantastes.The Portent was originally written for magazine serialization several years prior to its release in book form in 1864. Shorter than most of MacDonald's novels, this spooky tale of the Scottish "second sight" is a thorough spine-tingling ghost story worthy of the twilight zone. MacDonald's love of mysterious old castles and librarie...

A novel of a mysterious castle, unknown treasure, romance, and duplicity from the Victorian-era author of Lilith. "One of MacDonald's very best."—Richard Reis, author of George MacDonald's FictionThis dark realistic novel is somewhat puzzling in MacDonald's corpus of more uplifting works. Some of its disconcerting themes grew out of George and Louisa MacDonald's friendship with author John Ruskin during a troubled time in the latter's life. Some o...

A masterful and timeless novel from the renowned Scottish author—the work that established his place in the pantheon of British literature.Released in 1865 as the second of his major Scottish novels, many consider Alec Forbes of Howglen George MacDonald's most uniformly cohesive work of fiction. Intensely Scottish in flavor, like its predecessor David Elginbrod, the thick Doric dialect of much of the novel was relished by Victorians. Set i...

A son's spiritual journey reunites him with his father in this novel of redemption from the 19th-century Scottish author of The Elect Lady.One of MacDonald's smaller novels in length, and neither so ambitious of scope or depth, Home Again from 1887 is loosely based on the prodigal son parable. It is the oft-told tale of an ambitious young man who thinks too highly of himself, falls under the spell of a duplicitous young woman, and must find his wa...

A Victorian-era fairy tale of one woman's quest to redeem a selfish girl—from the Scottish author of The Princess and the Goblin.This shorter fairy tale "Double Story" (by which title it was also published), tells the story of spoiled Princess Rosamond, and a mysterious wise woman whom she meets in the forest, and who continues to come to her in different guises which the princess does not always recognize. Considered by some as one of MacDonald's "short s...