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- catalog abstract ""George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labors. But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer," MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity, innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult skepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child. Enlisting paradox, play, and nonsense much like Lewis Carroll's Alice books, these fictions challenge us to question and rethink our assumptions, and offer an elusive yet meaningful alternative order to the dubious certitudes of everyday life."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Fairy tales".
- catalog contributor b11474880.
- catalog contributor b11474881.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labors. But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer," MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity, innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult skepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child. Enlisting paradox, play, and nonsense much like Lewis Carroll's Alice books, these fictions challenge us to question and rethink our assumptions, and offer an elusive yet meaningful alternative order to the dubious certitudes of everyday life."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "From At the back of the north wind: -- Little daylight -- Nanny's dream -- Diamond's dream.".
- catalog description "From Dealings with the fairies: -- Cross purposes -- The golden key.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxiii).".
- catalog description "Introduction/ U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Suggestions for further reading -- A note on the texts.".
- catalog description "Later tales: -- The Carasoyn -- The wise woman, or The lost princess: a double story -- The history of Photogen and Nycteris: a day and night Mahrchen. -- Explanatory notes.".
- catalog description "The fantastic imagination: -- From Adela Cathcart: -- The light princess -- The shadows -- The giant's heart.".
- catalog extent "xxvi, 354 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0140437371".
- catalog isPartOf "Penguin classics".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Penguin Books,".
- catalog spatial "Scotland.".
- catalog subject "823/.8 21".
- catalog subject "Fairy tales Scotland.".
- catalog subject "PR4966 .K58 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "From At the back of the north wind: -- Little daylight -- Nanny's dream -- Diamond's dream.".
- catalog tableOfContents "From Dealings with the fairies: -- Cross purposes -- The golden key.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction/ U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Suggestions for further reading -- A note on the texts.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Later tales: -- The Carasoyn -- The wise woman, or The lost princess: a double story -- The history of Photogen and Nycteris: a day and night Mahrchen. -- Explanatory notes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The fantastic imagination: -- From Adela Cathcart: -- The light princess -- The shadows -- The giant's heart.".
- catalog title "Fairy tales".
- catalog title "The complete fairy tales / George MacDonald ; edited with an introduction and notes by U.C. Knoepflmacher.".
- catalog type "text".