Cross Purposes and The Shadows (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

by George MacDonald

Overview

This 1862 volume contains two of MacDonald's fairy stories.  In the first, the Queen of Fairyland determines to bring two mortals to her realm in order to provide some excitement, and in the second, a mortal, Ralph Rinkelmann, is elected king of the fairies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781411440951
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble
Publication date:	03/29/2011
Series:	Barnes & Noble Digital Library
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	110
File size:	232 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and Christian minister whose fairy tales and fantasies inspired such later luminaries as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and Neil Gaiman.  His best-remembered works include At the Back of the North Wind (1871), The Princess and the Goblin (1872), and Lilith (1895).