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A Double Story

George MacDonald

Book Overview: 

Also known as "The Lost Princess" or "The Wise Woman."

The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who are kidnapped by a strange woman for a lesson in life. They may not emerge the same... but will their parents be changed for the better too?

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .knock—say on the wall, for there was nothing else to knock upon—and perhaps the old woman would hear her, and lift her in by some window. Thereupon, she rose at once to her feet, and picking up a stone, began to knock on the wall with it. A loud noise was the result, and she found she was knocking on the very door itself. For a moment she feared the old woman would be offended, but the next, there came a voice, saying,

"Who is there?"

The princess answered,

"Please, old woman, I did not mean to knock so loud."

To this there came no reply.

Then the princess knocked again, this time with her knuckles, and the voice came again, saying,

"Who is there?"

And the princess answered,

"Rosamond."

Then a second time there was silence. But the princess soon ventured to knock a third time.

"What do you want?" said the voice.

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Community Reviews

Life changing read. (Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?)

Macdonald says,"And that is all my double story. How double it is, if you care to know, you must find out."

If you have little people in your life read them this parable and if the ha

I enjoyed this one until the end. I don't believe MacDonald gave the poor girl equal opportunity to repent and change as he did the princess. The unequal treatment of rich and poor suggests poor people are not as valuable as are the rich.

This is one of my favorite books. I find it very convicting on the heart level. Through a 'fairy tale' MacDonald gently (and sometimes not so gently) points out sins of selfishness, pride, laziness, etc. Those kinds of sins which are subtle and easily glossed over or hidden. But he does it in such a

This is a beautiful modern edition of the great Scottish writer George MacDonald's classical fairy tale The Wise Woman, originally published in 1875. This new edition, based off of one published in 1895, also has the strange and fascinating story The Gray Wolf, as well as MacDonald's powerful essay

Recently, my Church did a spring clean and decided to let go of two tables full of books. As I was browsing through, I found this book and the title entranced me enough that I decided to bring it home. I am so glad I did because this book is just too lovely!

The Lost Princess is a fairytale about two

I tend to share Tolkien's feeling for allegory, "a cordial dislike": and while The Lost Princess isn't quite an allegory, it skirts very close to the edge. Too close, really, for it to be the sort of story that I can ever fall thoroughly in love with. But in G-Mac's day allegories were all the rage,

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