Robert Falconer

The Scots-English Edition

Unabridged, Illustrated and Translated

Featuring full English translation side-by-side with original Scots dialogue, new illustrations by artist Leighton Isaacs, and an introduction by Michael Phillips.

ROBERT FALCONER is one of the greatest novels by George MacDonald, the man whom C.S. Lewis called his “master.” In his preface, translator David Jack writes that Robert Falconer “revolves around a twin-search by the hero: one after the prodigal earthly father whom he barely remembers to have seen, the other in pursuit of a Heavenly Father through the densest of theological fogs engendered by the well-meaning religious instruction of his Calvinist grannie…the odyssey left me spellbound, and here I found the essence of MacDonald’s spiritual vision encapsulated in a soaring work of fiction (soaring like the notes of Robert’s cherished violin): namely that ‘Fatherhood is at the great world’s core.'”

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