George MacDonald was the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy who influenced the work of C.S. Lewis J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams. This book collects some of his finest fairy stories including ?The Gray Wolf? ?The Cruel Painter? ?The Broken Swords? ?The Wow O?Rivven the Bell? ?Uncle Cornelius His Story? ?The Butcher?s Bills? and ?Birth Dreaming Death.?
?I do not write? MacDonald once said ?for children but for the childlike whether of five or fifty or seventy-five.? Here then for the childlike of all ages is a collection of seven stories certain to delight both confirmed MacDonald readers and those about to meet him for the first time.
