This was an interesting book to read after David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus. Both deal with fantastic travel (Lilith with inter-dimensional travel, Arcturus with inter-planetary travel) as a means of religious and spiritual discovery. Both drag you on a harrowing journey, where many questions...
The mentor of Lewis Carroll, and revered by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien among others, the severe-looking Scottish author clearly had a knack for creating magical things. Very few authors have said that they don't write for children, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty...
The Princess and Curdie is the sequel of George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin. Set a few years after the events of the first book, The Princess and Curdie follows Curdie as he sets out on a quest given to him by the old princess Irene. When we first meet Curdie he has grown hardened by ...