Synopses & Reviews
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Synopsis
Introduction by C. S. Lewis
-Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe, - wrote W. H. Auden in his introduction to the 1954 reprint of George MacDonald's Lilith, which was first published in 1895.
It is the story of Mr. Vane, an orphan and heir to a large house -- a house in which he has a vision that leads him through a large old mirror into another world. In chronicling the five trips Mr. Vane makes to this other world, MacDonald hauntingly explores the ultimate mystery of evil.
Synopsis
The story of Mr. Vane, an orphan and heir to a large house in which he has a vision that leads him through an old mirror into another world.
Synopsis
An Oxford undergraduate encounters an elusive spirit in the library of his ancestral mansion
Table of Contents
The library -- The mirror -- The raven -- Somewhere or nowhere? -- The old church -- The sexton's cottage -- The cemetery -- My father's manuscript -- I repent -- The bad burrow -- The evil wood -- Friends and foes -- The little ones -- A crisis -- A strange hostess -- A gruesome dance -- A grotesque tragedy -- Dead or alive? -- The white leech -- Gone! But how? -- The fugitive mother -- Bulika -- A woman of Bulika -- The white leopardess -- The princess -- A battle royal -- The silent fountain -- I am silenced -- The persian cat -- Adam explains -- The sexton's old horse -- The lovers and the bags -- Lona's narrative -- Preparation -- The little ones in Bulika -- Mother and daughter -- The shadow -- To the house of bitterness -- That night -- The house of death -- I am sent -- I sleep the sleep -- The dreams that came -- The waking -- The journey home -- The city -- The endless ending.