Author:George MacDonald

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George MacDonald (1824–1905)

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A Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
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George MacDonald

Works

Fantasy

• Phantastes, A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858)
  • Room to Roam
• "Cross Purposes" (1862)
• Adela Cathcart (1864)
  • The Broken Swords
  • The Cruel Painter
• The Light Princess and other Fairy Tales (1864)
• The Portent (1864)
  • The Castle
• Dealings with the Fairies (1867)
  • The Golden Key, Children searching for the mysterious "land from where the shadows fall."
• At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
  • Baby
• Works of Fancy and Imagination (1871)
  • The Carasoyn
  • The Gray Wolf
  • The Thankless Lady
• The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
• The Wise Woman: A Parable (1875)
• The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (1882)
  • The History of Photogen and Nycteris, A boy who has never seen the moon meets a girl who has never seen the sun
• The Princess and Curdie (1883)
• The Flight of the Shadow (1891)
• Lilith, a Romance (1895)

Realistic fiction

• David Elginbrod (1863)
• Alec Forbes (1865)
• Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1867)
• Guild Court: A London Story (1868)
• Robert Falconer (1868)
• The Seaboard Parish (1869)
• Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood (1871)
• Wilfrid Cumbermede (1871–72)
• The Vicar's Daughter (1871–72)
• Gutta Percha Willie (1873)
• Malcolm (1875)
• St. George and St. Michael (1876)
• Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876)
• The Marquis of Lossie (1877)
• Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)
• Sir Gibbie (1879)
• Mary Marston (1881)
• Warlock o' Glenwarlock (1881)
• Weighed and Wanting (1882)
• Donal Grant (1883)
• What's Mine's Mine (1886)
• Home Again (1887)
• The Elect Lady (1888)
• A Rough Shaking (1891)
• There and Back (1891)
• Heather and Snow (1893)
• Salted with Fire (1896)
• Far Above Rubies (1898)

Poetry

• Twelve of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis (1851)
• Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem (1855)
  • Little White Lily
• Poems (1857)
• "A Hidden Life" and Other Poems (1864)
• "The Disciple" and Other Poems (1867)
• Exotics: A Translation of the Spiritual Songs of Novalis, the Hymn-book of Luther, and Other Poems from the German and Italian (1876)
• Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems (1876)
• Diary of an Old Soul (1880)
• The Threefold Cord: Poems by Three Friends (1883)
  • The Holy Thing
• Poems (1887)
• The Poetical Works of George MacDonald, (1893)
• Scotch Songs and Ballads (1893)
• Rampolli: Growths from a Long-planted Root (1897)

Nonfiction

• Unspoken Sermons (1867)
• England's Antiphon (1868, 1874)
• The Miracles of Our Lord (1870)
• A Letter to American Boys (1878)
• Cheerful Words from the Writing of George MacDonald (1880), compiled by E. E. Brown
• Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare (1882)
• The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Test of the Folio of 1623 (1885)
• Unspoken Sermons, Second Series (1885)
• Unspoken Sermons, Third Series (1889)
• A Cabinet of Gems, Cut and Polished by Sir Philip Sidney (1891)
• The Hope of the Gospel (1892)
• A Dish of Orts (1893)
• Beautiful Thoughts from George MacDonald (1894), compiled by Elizabeth Dougall

Translations

• Novalis: Hymns to The Night, written by Novalis

About MacDonald

• “MacDonald, George,” in Dictionary of National Biography Second Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1912) in 3 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.