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George MacDonald

Annals of a Quiet NeighbourhoodGeorge MacDonald Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood CHAPTER I. DESPONDENCY AND CONSOLATION Before I begin to tell you some of the things I have seen and heard, in both of which I have had to take a share, now from the compulsion of my office, now from the leading of my...

A Double StoryGeorge MacDonald A Double Story I There was a certain country where things used to go rather oddly. For instance, you could never tell whether it was going to rain or hail, or whether or not the milk was going to turn sour. It was impossible to say whether the next baby would be a b...

What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 CHAPTER I. HOW COME THEY THERE? The room was handsomely furnished, but such as I would quarrel with none for calling common, for it certainly was uninteresting. Not a thing in it had to do with genuine individual choice,...

MalcolmGeorge MacDonald Malcolm CHAPTER I: MISS HORN "Na, na; I hae nae feelin's, thankfu' to say. I never kent ony guid come o' them. They're a terrible sicht i' the gait.""Naebody ever thoucht o' layin' 't to yer chairge, mem.""'Deed, I aye had eneuch adu to du the thing I had to du, no to say ...

The Marquis of LossieGeorge MacDonald The Marquis of Lossie CHAPTER I: THE STABLE YARD It was one of those exquisite days that come in every winter, in which it seems no longer the dead body, but the lovely ghost of summer. Such a day bears to its sister of the happier time something of the relat...

Adela Cathcart, Volume 3George MacDonald Adela Cathcart, Volume 3 CHAPTER I. MY UNCLE PETER.—CONTINUED "It was resolved that on the same evening, Chrissy should tell my uncle her story. We went out for a walk together; and though she was not afraid to go, the least thing startled her. A voice beh...

RampolliGeorge MacDonald Rampolli PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATIONS I think every man who can should help his people to inherit the earth by bringing into his own of the wealth of other tongues. In the flower-pots of translation I offer these few exotics, with no little labour taught to exist, I hope t...

Far Above RubiesGeorge MacDonald Far Above Rubies FAR ABOVE RUBIES BY GEORGE MACDONALDHector Macintosh was a young man about five-and-twenty, who, with the proclivities of the Celt, inherited also some of the consequent disabilities, as well as some that were accidental. Among the rest was a stro...

Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald Weighed and Wanting CHAPTER I. BAD WEATHER It was a gray, windy noon in the beginning of autumn. The sky and the sea were almost of the same color, and that not a beautiful one. The edge of the horizon where they met was an edge no more, but a bar thick and blu...

Unspoken Sermons, Series I., II., and IIIGeorge MacDonald Unspoken Sermons, Series I, II, and III UNSPOKEN SERMONS FIRST SERIES These Ears of Corn. gathered and rubbed in my hands upon broken Sabbaths, I offer first to my Wife, and then to my other Friends.THE CHILD IN THE MIDST And he came to Ca...