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Thomas Wingfold, Curate, Volume 1
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300 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2004
About the author
George MacDonald
1,830 books2,232 followersGeorge MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.
He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M...
He was educated at Aberdeen University and after a short and stormy career as a minister at Arundel, where his unorthodox views led to his dismissal, he turned to fiction as a means of earning a living. He wrote over 50 books.
Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, MacDonald inspired many authors, such as G.K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L'Engle. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling."
Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_M...
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May 15, 2024
I needed a breath of fresh air in my reading. Enter George Macdonald.
January 18, 2021
A great story as well as a great treatise for eternal life and for the existence of God. Lots of sermons and preaching, but solid truths through and through. Thomas Wingfold is a preacher assigned to a church who realizes that he is a doubter in the very Word he preaches. He is an honest man, though, and seeks out the truth. In doing so, he finds it to the extent that it convinces and satisfies him like nothing else, while also finding love for a woman who selfishly loves her dying criminal brother.
January 12, 2022
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July 16, 2023I'll wait till I finish all three volumes (publishing it in three volumes was rather silly) before I rate/review.
March 7, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyed it! Have already started volume II.
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