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The Portent and Other Stories
George MacDonald
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This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of torturing the youth with his own hopeless love. The story is set in late 16 century Prague, amid mysterious happenings and the terrifying rumors of a vampire on the loose.
This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of torturing the youth with his own hopeless love. The story is set in late 16 century Prague, amid mysterious happenings and the terrifying rumors of a vampire on the loose.
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Long before Lady Alice had made this progress, my nightly struggles began to diminish in violence. They had now entirely ceased. The temptation had left me. I felt certain that for we. . . Read More
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I am a fan of George MacDonald, and would like to read all his works. This was not one of his strongest novels, and the reasons are structural. In the early chapters, the narrator/protagonist is introduced to a ghostly tale of love and revenge which seems to bear mysteriously on his own fate, but...more
Like anything George MacDonald has penned, I deem this a great book. The sole reason being that it has ingrained within the heart of it the soul of a man whose deep respect for duty has only aroused and fed the HONEST, all-consuming, sincere, FLAMING and TRUE loyalty to the love that is of ideal...more
I'm going to say 4 instead of 5 because I think that I may have liked his original version better which ends differently (no spoilers here). It was originally published as a serial but then edited into a book form. Anywho, it's a great read. I love it's Scottishness and how I feel like this fits...more
I just recently finished reading George MacDonald's novella called The Portent, originally published in 1864. It is a fascinating story about the Celtic second sight, inspired by gothic literature, Scottish highland ghost stories, and it also had a great love story between Alice and Duncan which...more
It leaves you a bit wanting, but all in all a highly enjoyable yarn.
The story of a young Scots gentleman of around 1810. He takes a job as a tutor for an English lord while hoping to get a commission in the Scots Grays. He is haunted by occasional flashes of Second Sight, and receives some advice from an old Scotswoman with a good dose of it. A story of how love...more
This story was originally serialized in three parts in the Cornhill Magazine for May, June, and July 1860. In 1864, George MacDonald expanded the story and published it in book form. He added a happy ending.
One of my favorite passages is the paragraph that ended the original version.
"They say t...more
Wow---what a book. A little known work of George MacDonald---but well worth the time to find one. We found an out of print copy on Amazon---and we are wanting to find more copies so we can have a bookclub about it. All of my daughters need to read this!
I agree with some other reviewers about the potential of this book. The beginning ghostly tale was so wonderful and I expected it to tie into the story of Duncan and Alice so much more than it did. It really does make me think that MacDonald had planned to do more with it. This story was still ve...more
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