George MacDonald
11 books by George MacDonald to read free, each with its best passages and lines, and the best quotes from all of them below.
Where to start
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Phantastes
A young man awakes in Fairy Land, where he takes part in a series of strange adventures.
69,627 words, about 5 hours
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The Princess and the Goblin
A princess and her young friend valiantly fend off a goblin attack with help from a ghostly relative.
51,454 words, about 4 hours
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At the Back of the North Wind
A young boy’s life is transformed by his visit to the country at the back of the north wind.
89,132 words, about 6 hours
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The Princess and Curdie
A young miner accepts a mysterious commission that will test his faithfulness and restore justice to a faltering kingdom.
56,468 words, about 4 hours
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Unspoken Sermons
George MacDonald presents a set of interlocking sermons designed to shape the perception and life of the Christian disciple.
174,508 words, about 12 hours
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If I Had a Father
A reclusive sculptor and a struggling needlewoman are reunited with their fathers.
27,613 words, about 2 hours
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Lilith
After inheriting his ancestral home, a young man discovers another world inside his library and embarks on an allegorical journey.
94,467 words, about 7 hours
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Poetry
A collection of poetry by Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister George MacDonald, exploring themes of faith, nature, redemption, and the human soul.
156,913 words, about 11 hours
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Short Fiction
A collection of George MacDonald’s fairy tales, short stories, and novellas.
221,671 words, about 16 hours
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The Portent
A young Scottish tutor, gifted with a supernatural sense, discovers a haunting connection to a somnambulant noblewoman while residing at a remote English estate.
40,721 words, about 3 hours
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Within and Without
A spiritually unfulfilled monk goes on a journey to rescue a woman from his past.
36,211 words, about 3 hours
George MacDonald quotes
Perhaps, like a geologist, I was about to turn up to the light some of the buried strata of the human world, with its fossil remains charred by passion and petrified by tears.
It doesn’t follow that she was lost, because she had lost herself, though.
I have been asked to tell you about the back of the north wind.
A mountain is a strange and awful thing.
For the childlike is the divine, and the very word “marshals me the way that I was going.”
Why shouldn’t you roar a little now and then like other honest lions?
Nothing surely can more impress upon a man the transitory nature of possession than his succeeding to an ancient property!
Why should we think of death when life is high?
Think of it—to kick at kindness, and kneel from terror.
From my very childhood, I had rejoiced in being alone.
Always merry, and never drunk. That’s the life of the jolly monk.
The trees seemed all to have an expression of conscious mystery, as if they said to themselves, “We could, an’ if we would.”
A name is one of those things one can give away and keep all the same.
For to know a person’s name is not always to know the person’s self.
To me they are beautiful terrors.
To love our brother is to worship the Consuming Fire.
Every individual aspect of nature looks to me as if about to give birth to a human form, embodying that of which itself only dreams.
No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself.
Better a child in God’s great house Than the king of all the earth.
But the man who will do his work in spite of his fear is a man of true courage.