Stephen Archer, and Other Tales, by George MacDonald
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Stephen Archer was a stationer, bookseller, and newsmonger in one of the suburbs of London. The newspapers hung in a sort of rack at his door, as if for the convenience of the public to help themselves in passing. On his counter lay penny weeklies and books coming out in parts, amongst which the Family Herald was in force, and the London Journal not to be found. I had occasion once to try the extent of his stock, for I required a good many copies of one of Shakspere's plays—at a penny, if I could find such. He shook his head, and told me he could not encourage the sale of such productions. This pleased me; for, although it was of little consequence what he thought concerning Shakspere, it was of the utmost import that he should prefer principle to pence. So I loitered in the shop, looking for something to buy; but there was nothing in the way of literature: his whole stock, as far as I could see, consisted of little religious volumes of gay binding and inferior print; he had nothing even from the Halifax press.
Stephen Archer, and Other Tales, by George MacDonald- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .33" w x 6.00" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 144 pages
About the Author George MacDonald was a Scottish author and minister best known for his fairy tales and fantasy novels. A theologian, MacDonald was pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel before moving to London to teach at the University of London. MacDonald s work influenced many fantasy writers including J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L Engle; he is recognized as a mentor to Lewis Carroll and heavily influenced Carroll s decision to submit Alice s Adventures in Wonderland for publication. MacDonald was a prolific writer, and penned such fantasy classics as Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, and Lillith. George MacDonald died in 1905.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. a very mixed bag indeed: watch out for that play/drama at the end By bmuse Consider this a friendly warning. This anthology assembles several works written by George MacDonald, at least one of which (Photogen and Nycteris) has in fact been published all by itself, but all of the contents are shorter works of his, considerably shorter than his full-length novels (an unabridged "Sir Gibbie," for example, goes over four hundred pages in length). This collection is a real grab bag, because not everything in here is of the same quality, and the pieces come from various periods in MacDonald's writing career. They are kind of thrown together in here just because they are lesser-known and not all that lengthy.One of them deserves obscurity, hence my warning. The earliest piece of writing in "Stephen Archer" comes at the very end, and it is called "If I Had A Father." It is nothing like a novel, and with good reason: MacDonald was so early into his career as a writer, when he wrote "If I Had A Father," that he had yet to write one single novel. His publishers had not yet sat him down and had the talk with him which would change his life: write novels, young man, if you want the public to buy anything of yours and to keep a roof over your head. Up to this early point, MacDonald had written poems and dramatic verse, such as "Within and Without.""If I Had A Father" is a drama, a play in several scenes, and it stinks to high heaven. It is really, really pathetic. MacDonald had a very difficult time writing it, as his letters to his wife disclose (quoted in various biographies). Never again did MacDonald attempt anything of the sort....oh, by the way, nobody would publish the thing, not even the publishers who printed his poetry. The only way that MacDonald could publish "If I Had a Father" during his lifetime was to sneak it into an anthology of shorter stories...like this one!Only the biographers, the completist/collectors, and the students who review each MacDonald piece with regard to the whole of his oeuvre, will have any use for "If I Had A Father." Read it at your own risk. Otherwise, enjoy the other pieces in this anthology.
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