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    Cross Purposes and The Shadows (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By George MacDonald

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    This 1862 volume contains two of MacDonald's fairy stories.  In the first, the Queen of Fairyland determines to bring two mortals to her realm in order to provide some excitement, and in the second, a mortal, Ralph Rinkelmann, is elected king of the fairies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 29, 2011
    ISBN9781411440951
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    Cross Purposes and The Shadows (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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    George MacDonald

    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a popular Scottish lecturer and writer of novels, poetry, and fairy tales. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London. W. H. Auden called him "one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century."

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