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Lilith is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald, first published in 1895. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all. MacDonald was a Christian universalist, believing that all will eventually be saved. However, in this story, divine punishment is not taken lightly, and salvation is hard-won.

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How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes.Includes: 15 Colored Illustrations and BiographyLilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all. MacDonald was a Christian universalist, believing that all will eventually be saved. However, in this story, divine punishment is not taken lightly, and salvation is hard-won.

George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. The Doric dialect of the Aberdeenshire area appears in the dialogue of some of his non-fantasy novels.MacDonald grew up in an unusually literate environment: one of his maternal uncles was a notable Celtic scholar, editor of the Gaelic Highland Dictionary and collector of fairy tales and Celtic poetry. His paternal grandfather had supported the publication of an Ossian edition, the controversial Celtic text believed by some to have contributed to the starting of European Romanticism. MacDonald’s step-uncle was a Shakespeare scholar, and his paternal cousin another Celtic academic. Both his parents were readers, his father harbouring predilections for Newton, Burns, Cowper, Chalmers, Coleridge and Darwin, to quote a few, while his mother had received a classical education which included multiple languages

Lilith, a Romance by George MacDonaldHow is this book unique? Illustrations IncludedFree AudiobookLilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all. MacDonald was a Christian universalist, believing that all will eventually be saved. However, in this story, divine punishment is not taken lightly, and salvation is hard-won.

Lilith is a fantasy novel written by Scottish writer George MacDonald and first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in September 1969. Lilith is considered among the darkest of MacDonald's works, and among the most profound. It is a story concerning the nature of life, death, and salvation. In the story, MacDonald mentions a cosmic sleep that heals tortured souls, preceding the salvation of all. MacDonald was a Christian universalist, believing that all will eventually be saved. However, in this story, divine punishment is not taken lightly, and salvation is hard-won.

If you love fantasy and Gothic stories, you will definitely love George MacDonald’s Lilith. The density and complexity of the novel has been compared to the richness of the writings of Oscar Wide and Poe and it has been considered to be one of the best adult fantasy novels of the entire 19th century.The name in the title refers to a demonic female figure that appears in Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman mythology as well as in the Bible and in Jewish tradition. In Western tradition, Lilith was the very first woman who left Adam because she refused to serve him, she was the powerful, demonic woman and a character that fitted in so snugly with the modern tradition of Gothic and horror storiesas well as with occultism.The narrator and protagonist of the novel is Mr. Vane who lives in an old house owned by his family for generations. He meets an old man, Mr. Raven, who shows him a magic mirror in the house and takes him to see the world behind the mirror – a world populated by spirits, child-eating leopardesses, giants and dwarfs and is ruled by the empress of all evil, Lilith herself. The structure of the novel bears resemblance to Dante’s Divina Comedia – the Inferno-Purgatory-Paradise sequence is clearly recognizable, what’s more, the wise old man who takes the protagonist by the hand resembles and acts like Virgil in Dante’s opus.The novel is rich in allegories and mythological allusions, but MacDonald is not only an erudite, he is also a master of atmosphere. The novel comes with lots of beautiful, poetic descriptions of the landscapes of the world behind the mirrorand the accounts of the events witnessed by the protagonist are narrated in excellent style as well.MacDonald mixes religious symbolism and the most important questions in theology with a beautifully-written, quick-paced story – no wonder so many great writers of our age mention it as a book that has influenced their way of seeing the world.