![]() ![]() Their turn came far later and with the help of many other books and men. It did nothing to my intellect nor (at that time) to my conscience. ![]() What it actually did to me was to convert, even to baptize (that was where the death came in) my imagination. The whole book had about it a sort of cool, morning innocence, and also, quite unmistakably, a certain quality of Death, good Death. A few hours later I knew that I had crossed a great frontier. It must be more than thirty years ago that I bought-almost unwillingly, for I had looked at the volume on that bookstall and rejected it on a dozen previous occasions-the Everyman edition of Phantastes. ![]() In Lewis’s 1946 preface to George MacDonald: An Anthology, he wrote: ![]() Lewis had a high regard for this forefather of modern fantasy and, what’s more, he credited one of MacDonald’s books, Phantastes, as a major factor in his eventual religious conversion. Lewis, that I not only brushed up against him but also kept on bumping into him. Yet it was there, waist-deep in biographical research on C. I’m ashamed to say that I never encountered George MacDonald until graduate school. She likes reading, writing, fairy stories, and chocolate covered caramel corn. Rachel Bomberger is the copywriter at Eerdmans. ![]()
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