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    Mary Marston
    Mary Marston
    Mary Marston
    Audiobook17 hours

    Mary Marston

    Written by George MacDonald

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston's unswerving commitment to love, God, and others is contrasted with a backdrop of an array of characters and a complex and sometimes mysterious plot. It is a story of a woman who loves a man, and teaches him to change. Not out of his love for her, but simply because it was the right thing to do. MacDonald allows the characters a range from delightful to devious. As such, they were intended to serve as models. His message is that all eventually must stand before God. (Summary text from Wikipedia)

    This project was proof listened by Stav Nisser and Phil Chenevert.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Author

    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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    • 4/5
      George MacDonald shines most in his fantasy or preaching, however, stories like this are still wonderful for the many gleams of sunlight that break through what seems on the surface to be a generic 19th century class story. I really enjoyed it.
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      A masterpiece. I loved it. I can’t believe I hadn’t read or heard of it before.