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'''George MacDonald''' was a Victorian Scottish writer chiefly known for his fantasy works, which were read by such authors as [[G. K. Chesterton|GK Chesterton]], [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]], and [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]. They include ''At the Back of the North Wind'', ''Lilith'', ''Phantastes'', ''The Princess and the Goblin'', ''The Princess and Curdie'', and ''[[The Light Princess]]''. He also wrote a fair number of non-fantasy works, primarily concerned with romance, suffering and adventure in the Highlands, which are generally passed over [[Tastes Like Diabetes|for some reason.]]
 
Other writers who cited MacDonald as an influence include [[WH Auden]], Roger Lancelyn Green, [[Madeleine L'Engle]], [[E. Nesbit]], and Elizabeth Yates.
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He is not [[George Macdonald Fraser]].
 
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=== Works by George MacDonald with their own trope pages include: ===
* ''[[The Light Princess]]''
* ''[[The Princess and the Goblin]]''
 
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=== His other works provide examples of: ===
* [[An Aesop]]
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: <s> Frequently</s> ''Always''.
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** An example that even this [[Tropes Are Not Bad|trope is not bad]]. [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] observed of Macdonald's non-fantasy novels, "Sometimes they diverge into direct and prolonged preachments which would be intolerable if a man were reading for the story, but which are in fact welcome because the author... is a supreme preacher."
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=== George MacDonald in fiction: ===
 
* [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]] was particularly moved after reading ''Phantastes'', and much of Lewis' writing reflect the themes that MacDonald used. Accordingly, Lewis uses MacDonald as a [[The Mentor|guiding character]] - much like Dante used [[Virgil]] in ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' - in ''[[The Great Divorce]]''.
 
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