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 th

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 nat

So sorry. It's my first book of George Mac Donald and it had been really boring. Sometimes I had been at the point of abandon it.
I wanted to read this author because C.S Lewis

Though a slower-paced plot than most of his novels, here MacDonald explores the idea of second sight, or in this novel, second hearing. Young Duncan Campbell can hear the fateful sound of a ghostly horse that ties to the violent past of his family line. I enjoy how MacDonald ties Scottish folklore t

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 was

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 can

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 that

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 very

I was working on a rather large art project and I was desperate for an audiobook. So I looked up what randomly popped into my head and it happened to be George MacDonald. I've been a long time admirer of his but knew he could write some queer stories. So I listened with caution and found it to be en