Macdonald George: 317 books

Me list not of the chaf ne of the stre Maken so long a tale as of the corn. CHAUCER.—Man of Lawes Tale. Chapter I. Christmas Eve. It was the afternoon of Christmas Eve, sinking towards the night. All day long the wintry light had been diluted with fog, and now the vanguard of the darkness coming to...

WHO HE WAS AND WHERE HE WAS. WHEN he had been at school for about three weeks, the boys called him Six-fingered Jack; but his real name was Willie, for his father and mother gave it him-not William, but Willie, after a brother of his father, who died young, and had always been called Willie. His name...

AMONG the young men assembled at the University of Prague, in the year 159-, was one called Karl von Wolkenlicht. A somewhat careless student, he yet held a fair position in the estimation of both professors and men, because he could hardly look at a proposition without understanding it. Where such proposition,...

Maggie looked in at the window as she passed it on her way, to get a last sight of her father. The sun was shining into the little bare room, and her shadow fell upon him as she passed him; but his form lingered clear in the close chamber of her mind after she had left him far. And it was not her shadow...

Since printing throughout the title Orts, a doubt has arisen in my mind as to its fitting the nature of the volume. It could hardly, however, be imagined that I associate the idea of worthlessness with the work contained in it. No one would insult his readers by offering them what he counted valueless...

THE SHOP It was an evening early in May. The sun was low, and the street was mottled with the shadows of its paving-stones—smooth enough, but far from evenly set. The sky was clear, except for a few clouds in the west, hardly visible in the dazzle of the huge light, which lay among them like a liquid...

A classic children’s story, At the Back of the North Wind is an allegorical tale of life and death. One night young Diamond befriends the mysterious North Wind, who allows him to ride on her back all over the countryside, teaching him about herself—a powerful but mysterious entity—as well as death, love, and forgiveness.

In this 1873 short novel for children—by an author who influenced Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and many other fantasy writers—young Willie’s wise father, a doctor, lets his son learn by himself how to first work with his hands, then his mind. His resulting benefit Willie, his family, and the world at large.

In this 1883 sequel to the children’s classic The Princess and the Goblin (adapted by Jay Ward for Fractured Fairy Tales), Princess Irene and Curdie—with the help of Irene’s grandmother, a strange gift, and a monster named Lina—save Irene’s mysteriously ill father from a cabal of corrupt ministers.

stranger still, where this carpet, which I had myself designed to imitate a field of grass and daisies, bordered the course of the little stream, the grass-blades and daisies seemed to wave in a tiny breeze that followed the water's flow; while under the rivulet they bent and swayed with every motion of the changeful current, as if they were about to dissolve with it, and, forsaking their fixed form, become fluent as the waters.  ...