At the Back of The North Wind: With Classics Illustrations

ISBN-10
ISBN-13: 9798667001539
Series: At the Back of the North Wind
Pages: 344
Language: English
Published: 2020-07-17
Publisher: Independently Published
Author: George MacDonald

Description

Book Description Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for closing her "window" into his room. Thus begins their friendship. Spirited away by the North Wind, Diamond embarks on a series of adventures both near to and far from his home. His pure heart and his simple, loving spirit guide him as he journeys to the back of the North Wind and home again. Reviews "All metaphysic, theology, philosophy is as words signifying nothing compared to MacDonald's rendering of this tale. Part fairy story, part dream, poetry, apprehended here is a meaning of life and love such as you will not find in slmost any other book. The style is off-putting to some: tales within tales, a song here, a nursery rhyme there. But it is the story of Diamond, an angel child.who finds sanctification at the back of the north wind. Do you have anxiety justifying the trouble and triumph of life? Here in this book is an answer to ponder for a lifetime. " " I like George MacDonald's books very much, and this particular one because of its beautiful and dreamlike way to face life. "Some children are profound in metaphysics", he says at some point. This book contains also the fairy tale "Little Daylight", inspired in the Sleeping Beauty. My son enjoyed the story while it was happening, but didn't like the ending. He wants Diamond to return again from the Back of the North Wind." About Author George 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.