Publisher's Synopsis
George MacDonald (1824-1905), the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, influenced not only C. S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy talesLilithandPhantastesare particularly famous, much of MacDonald's best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonald's finest short worksmarvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.
