Home again. By: George MacDonald

George MacDonald (10 December 1824 - 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L’Engle.[1] C. S. 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.＂