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George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.
| ISBN | 0140437371 | | Pages | 384 | | ISBN13 | 9780140437379
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 260 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Publication date | 24 Feb 2000 | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Writer of introduction | U. C. Knoepflmacher | | Height (mm) | 194 | | Library of Congress | 98055673 | | Width (mm) | 131 | | DEWEY | 823.8 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | General |
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| | | Introduction | | | | | | Suggestions for Further Reading | | | | | | A Note on the Texts | | | | | | The Fantastic Imagination | | 1 | | | | The Light Princess | | 15 | | | | The Shadows | | 54 | | | | The Giant's Heart | | 81 | | | | Cross Purposes | | 103 | | | | The Golden Key | | 120 | | | | Little Daylight | | 149 | | | | Nanny's Dream | | 165 | | | | Diamond's Dream | | 177 | | | | The Carasoyn | | 189 | | | | The Wise Woman, or The Lost Princess: A Double Story | | 225 | | | | The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Mahrchen | | 304 | | | | Explanatory Notes | | 343 |
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