Such places tend to be more of a Magical Library at heart.This is a recurring image throughout MacDonald's fiction, probably inspired by a year MacDonald spent as a youth cataloging books in a large house in Scotland. Great Big Library of Everything: Mentioned in Phantastes, Lilith, Alec Forbes.Funetik Aksent: Just in case you ever forgot you were in Scotland.First-Name Basis: In "Port in a Storm", the father stops his story to comment that he and their mother were on first name basis already at this point in the story.Everything's Better with Rainbows: In The Golden Key.
Dreaming the Truth: In " Port In A Storm", it's how he finds the port.In one of the stories in Phantastes, Cosmo von Wehrstahl dies in the arms of the Princess von Honenweiess he has released from the mirror she has been enchanted in, but she finds him too late and cradles him as he dies in her arms.If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art that it needs THIS IS A HORSE written under it, what can it matter that neither you nor your child should know what it means? It is there not so much to convey a meaning as to wake a meaning." "A genuine work of art must mean many things the truer its art, the more things it will mean. When readers asked him what meanings he put in his fairy tales, he assured them it was much more valuable for them to think for themselves and find their own meanings, rather than him having to explain. Death of the Author: invoked Applied this idea to his own works in his essay " The Fantastic Imagination ".Occasionally crosses over into Badass Adorable. Determinator: Many of his child characters, especially the virtuous ones.Cool Old Lady: Fairy grandmothers often appear, and are always awesome.An Aesop: Often to the level of Writer on Board (see below).
Short stories by George MacDonald with their own trope pages include:
Works by George MacDonald with their own trope pages include: Appropriately enough, he sported a pretty impressive Wizard Beard. Essentially, he is the grandfather of nearly the entire modern genre of fantasy. Auden, Roger Lancelyn Green, Madeleine L'Engle, E. Other writers who cited MacDonald as an influence include W. MacDonald was also a Christian minister who wrote several books on theology and sermon collections. Beyond what we've listed below, he also wrote a fair number of non-fantasy works, primarily concerned with romance, suffering and adventure in the Highlands, which are generally passed over for some reason. George MacDonald (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Victorian Era Scottish writer who's chiefly known for his fantasy works, which were read by such authors as G.
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