About the Author

George MacDonald was born in 1824. One of the precursors of modern fantasy, he wrote the novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, and Lilith, as well as numerous fairy tales. C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, G. K. Chesterton, and Madeleine L'Engle cited him as a major influence. He died in 1905.