Books with title The Golden Door

THE GOLDEN KEY By George MacDonald With Illustrations by Maud Humphrey There was a boy who used to sit in the twilight and listen to his great-aunt's stories. She told him that if he could reach the place where the end of the rainbow stands he would find there a golden key. "And what is the key for?" the boy would ask. "What is it the key of? What will it open?" "That nobody knows," his aunt would reply. Now, all that his great-aunt told the boy about the golden key would have been nonsense, had it not been that their little house stood on the borders of Fairyland. For it is perfectly well known that out of Fairyland nobody ever can find where the rainbow stands. The creature takes such good care of its golden key, always flitting from place to place, lest anyone should find it! But in Fairyland it is quite different.

After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of Books 1-6, must train a new king. Old friends, new adventures!Coryn, Soren, and the Band preside over a new Golden Age of the Great Tree under the subtle influence of the Ember. All seems well, but beneath the prosperity of peace Coryn is tortured by the suspicion that his evil mother, Nyra, is a hagsfiend and that his own blood carries the haggish taint. He wanders afar searching for the truth from hagsfiends themselves - putting the Great Tree in danger. Soren & the Band follow their new king to strange parts to guard him from the consequences of his obsession.

Join three cats on an epic journey through the forest. They will be tested by predators, storms, snow, and much more. Follow their journey through the woods, where they will encounter both new friends and enemies, be challenged by the harsh conditions of the wild, and seek out one of the cats they love the most. They must hunt to survive and seek shelter when needed, they must endure the dangerous weather and find their way through the massive forest, but most of all, they must stick together and not give up. Will they survive the journey, and still find who they are seeking?

Steven is a single parent struggling to raise his son in rural America. In the year 2036, work is scarce and he is a traveling specialized construction worker, steadily moving from place to place and job to job with his son in tow. Then he becomes the new caretaker of the old family farm. Steve can now see a new stable beginning for himself and his son. But he soon finds out that his father is missing and he is under suspicion of murder by the crazy sheriff. His farmhouse is haunted by spirits, and he finds out that his family has guarded the gates to hell for the last two hundred years and the lock keeping it shut is no longer adequate. Then to top it all off, someone kidnaps his son. A crazy adventure that will take you beyond your imagination to the unthinkable, with believable characters and wonderful newfound friends. A story where a father's love for his son enables him to do the impossible and accomplish the unachievable. A story you will never forget.

The Golden Ass is the only Ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive in its entirety. The protagonist of the novel is called Lucius, like the author. At the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The plot revolves around the protagonist's curiosity (curiositas) and insatiable desire to see and practice magic. While trying to perform a spell to transform into a bird, he is accidentally transformed into an ass. This leads to a long journey, literal and metaphorical, filled with in-set tales. He finally finds salvation through the intervention of the goddess Isis, whose cult he joins.