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George MacDonald

A Dish of Orts Paperback – August 16, 2004

by George D. Macdonald (Author)

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212 pages
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Wildside Press
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August 16, 2004
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6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
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1557422796
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978-1557422798
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Publisher : Wildside Press (August 16, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 212 pages
ISBN-10 : 1557422796
ISBN-13 : 978-1557422798
Item Weight : 13.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches

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Phoenician

Dishing out wisdom

Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2014

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A Dish of Orts is an interesting collection by one of my favorite authors. The writing style goes back a hundred years so it will be hard for some readers to process but not impossible. A best selling author in his time, MacDonald has been largely forgotten by the mainstream until resurrected by Bethany House Publishing in the 1970's and later. I've not finished reading this collection but there are parts that interest me a great deal. This is a book for the thirsty. Those without the patience and stamina to read and meditate on good content need not apply.

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Dave

Another good book by George MacDonald

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015

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George MacDonald had a great way of looking at the world, and that comes through in this book, which is all about the poetry of Shakespeare and others. Not the easiest read, but a good book if you are a fan of poetry and literary criticism.

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Gene Ort

From one Ort to A Dish of Orts

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2014

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Considering my name is Ort, A Dish of Orts caught my attention. How delighted I was to find George MacDonald's writings for the first time. As an aspiring writer, his example gives much food for thought, more than mere table scraps.

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bmuse

NOT children's lit: George MacDonald on the Imagination

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2014

George MacDonald wrote and published the occasional essay during his career; later in life, he collected some of his short non-fiction pieces in this anthology. Don't make too much of the title, which comes from lowlander Scottish dialect. Think of it as a way to make the George MacDonald Miscellaneous Writings unique and impossible to confuse with anyone else's anthology of essays, as that was its undoubted intent (besides also signaling that the author is Scottish....).
"The Fantastic Imagination," which closes the volume, is probably the most often quoted and referenced of the pieces in "A Dish of Orts," and rightly so, since it bears directly upon writing symbolic, mythological fairy-tale-style fiction. And there is a piece which deserves to be carefully studied by more readers. It does not open "A Dish of Orts" but it is near the beginning, and it is titled:

"A Sketch of Individual Development."

Literature professor and critic Richard H Reis, who distinguished himself with a small pithy book reviewing George MacDonald's writing (titled George MacDonald), makes much of "A Sketch of Individual Development," quoting it heavily. Reis' opinion is that this essay anticipates modern psychology in general, and Freud and Jung in particular. Although MacDonald, always religious and mystical, orients "development" towards development of the spirit and the soul as well as the personality, he also proves himself a keen observer of infancy and childhood, describing an infantile attachment to parent figures followed by the struggle for individuation. I rather doubt that MacDonald was taught this stuff in divinity school, nor earlier as a chemistry and science major in Aberdeen. MacDonald has studied from the school of life, and has responded to his studies from the vantage point of a soul wiser and more insightful than the majority of his fellow men in his time and place.

"A Sketch of Individual Development" is difficult to read; it is like cracking a nut to get at the meat inside. I recommend first reviewing Richard Reis' analysis and breakdown of the essay, in Reis' book, and then using this as a guide to MacDonald's lengthy, heavy piece of writing. Not for the faint of heart, or the immature, or those wanting in patience -- but infinitely rewarding.

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