George MacDonald: The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) Heidi Stemple so she never thought of

so she never thought of becoming anything except an illustrator

"Not a leaf stirring"

- Bournemouth Daily Echo

and postures of the birds themselves

in which he tries to escape his inevitable bedtime

George MacDonald: The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) Heidi Stemple so she never thought ofGeorge MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly