The Flight of the Shadow

MacDonald, George

ISBN 10: 0062505637 / ISBN 13: 9780062505637

Published by Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1983

About this Item

Soft cover. 1/2" tear at bottom of spine otherwise moderate wear. Binding is solid. Tanned pages have corner creasing on a few. Previous owners' names on half-title page otherwise pages are unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 000255

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Flight of the Shadow
• Publisher: Harper and Row, San Francisco
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062505637
• ISBN 13: 9780062505637
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 4th Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

The young orphan, Belorba Whichcote, struggles to uncover the mysterious secret, which her uncle attempts to keep hidden from her

About the Author

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence". Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald. Christian author Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) wrote in Christian Disciplines, vol. 1, (pub. 1934) that "it is a striking indication of the trend and shallowness of the modern reading public that George MacDonald's books have been so neglected". In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works on Christian apologetics including several that defended his view of Christian Universalism.