George MacDonald

George MacDonald (10th December 1824 – 18th September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll.

C. S. Lewis gave the highest praise of George MacDonald, claiming that his novel, Phantastes, baptised his imagination. Lewis assembled an anthology of quotations from MacDonald’s work, and in the Preface claims that he never wrote a book in which he did not draw from MacDonald.

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