Donal Grant

by George MacDonald, Michael Phillips (Editor)

Overview

A gothic thriller of good versus evil played out in the heart of a mysterious castle—the sequel to Sir Gibbie by the 19th-century Scottish author.
 
As well as being MacDonald’s longest book, the magnificent Donal Grant is a novel with everything—a Gothic castle with hidden rooms and passageways, good guys and bad guys, mysteries and inheritances, and poignant yet bittersweet love. Little does Gibbie’s friend Donal realize what he is in for when he takes a tutoring job at mysterious Castle Graham.
 
Woven throughout, of course, are many signature tunes of MacDonald’s wisdom and spiritual insight, including one of C.S. Lewis’s favorite MacDonald lines, that God is “easy to please but hard to satisfy.” Along with Malcolm, Donal Grant presents one of MacDonald’s most intricate and riveting plots, led by another of his stellar characters of virtue and truth. Its massive length, however (786 pages in the original), difficult Scots dialect, and numerous digressive tangents, illustrate better than any MacDonald title the need for condensed contemporary editions. Donal Grant is unique in the MacDonald corpus as being originally released in two different editions in Great Britain and America. This updated edition by Michael Phillips, which Phillips ranks as one of his favorite MacDonald titles, epitomizes the value and significance of The Cullen Collection in bringing the fiction of George MacDonald alive for new generations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780795352164
Publisher:	RosettaBooks
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Series:	The Cullen Collection , #27
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	455
Sales rank:	1,022,708
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

George MacDonald (1824 - 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. 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".

Table of Contents

1	Foot Faring	7
2	In Lodgings	39
3	The Sabbath	68
4	New Acquaintances	95
5	In the New Home	125
6	No Coward	140
7	Becoming Acquainted	155
8	What it Involved	164
9	Biased by Opinion	172
10	More Knowledge	192
11	An Altercation	215
12	The True Path	264
13	In Council	279
14	Teacher Turned Pupil	284
15	A Thing to be Ashamed Of	298
16	Further Interference	328
17	Keeping Aloof	349
18	In the Scales	357
19	Strange Sights	371
20	A Visitor	383
21	Meeting of the Three	414
22	Advice Rejected	426
23	Differences	432
24	Into the old Grooves	473
25	Further Search	480
26	The Dream	492
27	Finding the Place	499
28	A Confidential Talk	510
29	Another Suggestion	515
30	An unsought-for Interview	567
31	Lord Morven	583
32	A Strange Burial	588
33	After Church	595
34	The Paper in the Bureau	604
35	Alarming the Earl	612
36	Explaining the lost Room	630
37	Lord Forgue again	647
38	False Play	686
39	The Plot	698
40	Waking to the Fact	702
41	Deliverance	707
42	Odd Changes	719
43	A Confession	752
44	The Marriage	760
45	The Will	768