Lilith: A Romance - Softcover

MacDonald, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1520421389 ISBN 13: 9781520421384

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

Synopsis

When Mr. Vale stumbles upon a large mirror in a house he recently inherited, he is thrown into a world of conflict and intrigue. Strange creatures abound and all fear the enigmatic ruler, Lilith. On his travels, the hero encounters the Little Ones who are desperately afraid of Lilith and seek someone to be their champion against her.

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Review

"Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe," the great 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only begins to touch on the richness, density, and wonder of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde--not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the story of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him.

Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit--the reader and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. --Doug Thorpe

About the Author

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a popular Scottish lecturer and writer of novels, poetry, and fairy tales. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London. W. H. Auden called him "one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century."

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1520421389
• ISBN 13: 9781520421384
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 135
• Editor: Uyl Anthony