The complete online text of Adela Cathcart, Volume 1 by George MacDonald.

During the mid-to late-Victorian period, George MacDonald was a public personality and a well-known literary figure. Leading critical journals printed long articles on his work; in 1869 the London Quarterly Review called him "one of the most popular auth...

Any study that seeks to trace the influences of English and European romanticism in "mythopoeic" fantasy must turn to the works of the Scottish author George MacDonald. He was a contemporary of Lewis Carroll (MacDonald's children read "Alice's Adventures...

George MacDonald is remembered as one of the founding fathers of modern fantasy. Although he wrote many different kinds of books, including realistic novels, poetry, sermons, and literary criticism, his imaginative fairy tales of growth and redemption we...

ABSTRACT: Albert Skarvan (1869-1926) is regarded today as a figure of some importance in Slovak literature. Though he played no part in political life, he was an enthusiastic cultural nationalist and an advocate of the use of the Slovak vernacular for literature. His Memoirs...

Kimberly A. LoPrete, Adela of Blois: Countess and Lord (c.1067-1137) (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), xxv + 665 pp. ISBN 1-85182-563-0. 65.00 [pounds sterling]. This is a long and densely written book, with a text of 458 pages, appendices amounting to 136...