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    The Day Boy and the Night Girl (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

    By George MacDonald

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    The Day Boy and Night Girl - also referred to as The Romance of Photogen and Nycteris - first appeared in Harper's Young People as a series between December of 1879 and January of 1880. Regarded as George MacDonald's best work, it features a witch who, in her pursuit of total knowledge, performs an experiment to mould two people from birth by strictly controlling their environments. Many of the finest stories of magic and fantasy, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781447480334
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    The Day Boy and the Night Girl (Fantasy and Horror Classics)
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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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    • 5/5
      Perfect. But then I'm a huge fan of MacDonald.

      He writes with such grace that one doesn't realize at first how clever his stories are. And such memorable, unique characters - what reader will ever forget the day boy who disobediently stayed out after dark, who begs for comfort from the night girl, then arrogantly abandons her as she faces the sun for the first time in her life? Who could forget that girl who works through the revelations of life outside her dark cell with much more courage, despite being held in much more ignorance, than the boy could ever? Even the witch, even the staff, are interesting characters.

      I suppose the story is not more popular because it is short enough, fantastical enough, to look like a book for young children - whereas it's really more like a novella for young-at-heart adults.

      This edition particularly lovely with the illustrations by Hogrogian.
    • 5/5
      This wonderful work is a perfect example of why it is a crime of the highest order that the maestro of "fairytales", George MacDonald, is not better known in our day. A beautiful and extremely creative story of fantasy, romance, and deep allegory.Read from the author C.S. Lewis called his literary "master"--the man who inspired and fathered the renowned Inklings, the small group of authors including such men as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and others.