The Laughing Elf

by Ronald MacDonald

Overview

Praise for The Laughing Elf: "A work of genius, bringing with it what Walter Pater calls 'a strange new beauty.' . . . it is going to last, is this book of fairy tales strung on a string as it were. The author is Ronald MacDonald, a son of that George MacDonald whose name is one still to conjure with" ---Henry Savage Published by Nodens Books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781976491627
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2017
Pages:	102
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.21(d)

About the Author

Ronald MacDonald was born in London on 27 October 1860, the seventh of eleven children and the second of six sons, of novelist George MacDonald and his wife Louisa Powell. Ronald was educated at Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1885), after which he went to the United States where he was a schoolmaster at the Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and at Ravenscroft School in Asheville, North Carolina. He returned to England in 1894, where he became a novelist and dramatist. He published fourteen novels, two under the name
"Oliver Fleming" (written in collaboration with his son Philip MacDonald), and one short fairy tale, The Laughing Elf (1922), his only writing in the manner made famous by his father.
Ronald MacDonald died in London on 13 July
1933.