The Day Boy and the Night Girl

By George MacDonald  

Illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian

Published by Alfred A. Knopf

1988 First Edition 1st Printing

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George MacDonald  (10 December 1824 – 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian  Congregational  minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern  fantasy literature  and the mentor of fellow-writer  Lewis Carroll. In addition to his  fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of  Christian theology, including several collections of  sermons.


MacDonald's first realistic novel  David Elginbrod  was published in 1863. MacDonald is often regarded as the founding father of modern fantasy writing. His best-known works are  Phantastes  (1858),  The Princess and the Goblin  (1872),  At the Back of the North Wind  (1868–1871), The Day Boy and the Night Girl  (1882), and  Lilith  (1895), all fantasy novels, and  fairy tales  such as "The Light Princess", "The Golden Key", and "The Wise Woman". MacDonald claimed that "I write, not for children, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five." MacDonald also published some volumes of sermons, the pulpit not having proved an unreservedly successful venue. After his literary success, MacDonald went on to do a lecture tour in the United States in 1872–1873, after being invited to do so by a lecture company, the  Boston Lyceum Bureau. On the tour, MacDonald lectured about other poets such as  Robert Burns, Shakespeare, and  Tom Hood. He performed this lecture to great acclaim, speaking in Boston to crowds in the neighbourhood of three thousand people.


MacDonald served as a mentor to  Lewis Carroll; it was MacDonald's advice, and the enthusiastic reception of  Alice  by MacDonald's many sons and daughters, that convinced Carroll to submit  Alice  for publication. Carroll, one of the finest Victorian photographers, also created photographic portraits of several of the MacDonald children.  MacDonald was also friends with  John Ruskin  and served as a go-between in Ruskin's long courtship with  Rose La Touche. While in America he was befriended by  Longfellow  and  Walt Whitman. MacDonald's use of  fantasy  as a literary medium for exploring the human condition greatly influenced a generation of notable authors, including  C. S. Lewis, who featured him as a character in his  The Great Divorce.


Others he influenced include  J. R. R. Tolkien  and  Madeleine L'Engle. MacDonald's non-fantasy novels, such as  Alec Forbes, had their influence as well; they were among the first realistic Scottish novels, and as such MacDonald has been credited with founding the "kailyard school" of Scottish writing. Chesterton cited  The Princess and the Goblin  as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence,... in showing "how near both the best and the worst things are to us from the first ... and making all the ordinary staircases and doors and windows into magical things."


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