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The Fisherman's Lady

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This book was my introduction to George MacDonald's adult fiction, and I think his best! Don't miss the sequel, The Marqui's Secret. As a child I grew up reading C.S. Lewis, John White and MacDonald's writings and developed a love for the keen insights and deep thoughts in MacDonald's novels as well as his inspirational books. Interestingly, he was the spiritual and literary mentor for both Lewis and Tolkein. They are not a lightweight romances like modern authors tend to write, but classic love story both men and women read and enjoy.

Excellent reading! This was my introduction to George MacDonald's books. Not a soppy romance as today's authors tend to write, but even one that men would enjoy reading for leisure! As I am a GREAT fan of C.S.Lewis' and Tolkien's writings, I was fascinated to find that both these author's drew a lot of their inspiration from MacDonald's writings. I have since read "The Princess & the Goblin", "The Princess & Curdie", "The Golden Key", and "The Light Princess". My husband is currently reading Phantastes and we have also bought Lilith, still to be read. I look forward to getting "The Marquis' Secret" if I can, as I really would like to follow the full story!!

This is the first George MacDonald book I read. It is extremely interesting and educational, especially if you're interested in Scottish history. It is 1 of a 2 book series. I recommend them both.

I found this to be such a wonderful story. George MacDonald knew how to write in such a way that the reader could not help but think about how they live and think or don't ever really think .... just wonderful...and the sequel is every bit as wonderful! Betty Collins

Good adventure novel. Interesting characters, especially the "human" ones. I thought the hero, Malcolm, was too good to be true, too "saintly" to be real. The ending leaves you hanging though. I hadn't known when I started reading this book, that it is really Book 1 of a two-part story. Make sure you can get hold of the second book "The Marquis' Secret" before you started reading "The Fisherman's Lady".

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"The Fisherman's Lady" and its sequel "The Marquis Secret" are available in a single volume, "Malcom".

This and "The Highlander's Last Song" are among his best.

An excellent gift for a University lecturer or a politicians wife.

MacDonald inspired men like Tolkien, Lewis and Chesterton. If you like tension between characters you can't beat MacDonald. The man was a genius.

Enjoy.

I HATE abridgements. How dare Phillips assume that Christian readers, or any other readers, can't read a 400 page book. I just finished a contemporary novel of 933 pages. Because Phillips chose to cut about half of the book, what we have is a series of disjointed scenes with no clear transitions between them.

What is left after Phillip's butchery is charming, enjoyable, great fun, and clearly writing of a very high order. Macdonald provides interesting characters, deft plotting, a fascinating picture of 19th cent Scotland, and useful moral reflection. If he was not of the very first rank of writers, he was not very far below it. There some respects in which I find Macdonald to be superior to other Victorian writers, for expample, his understanding of the responsibilities of rank, and his refusal to sentimentalize his women characters.

Unfortunately, Phillips did not get the point. The original novel, to judge from the excellence of the half Phillips left us, was much more than a "Christian romance", it was a Christian work of art. Phillip's condescending assumption that Christians cannot read and respond to Christian literature as art, not just as tract, is unsufferable. Does he wish to spoon feed the Bible to us as well? This is particularly upsetting to me, because most of Macdonald's adult novels are out of print, and virtually unobtainable in their entirety.