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George MacDonald

George MacDonald’s Aberdeenshire dialect is a rich and expressive language, but it can be difficult for modern readers to understand. David Jack’s (complete and unabridged) translations make MacDonald’s work more accessible by providing a side-by-side comparison of the Scots and modern English versions. See individual links for more details.

Fantasy/ Fairy Tales

Short story collections

Scottish Novels

English Novels

Novels for Children

Novellas

Other works

  • Unspoken Sermons, First Series (1867)
  • England’s Antiphon (1868, 1874)
  • The Miracles of Our Lord (1870)
  • The Diary of an Old Soul (1880)
  • Cheerful Words from the Writing of George MacDonald (1880), compiled by E. E. Brown.
  • Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare (1882)
  • “Preface” (1884) to Letters from Hell (1866) by Valdemar Adolph Thisted.
  • The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study With the Text of the Folio of 1623 (1885)>
  • Unspoken Sermons, Second Series (1885)
  • Unspoken Sermons, Third Series (1889)
  • A Cabinet of Gems, Cut and Polished by Sir Philip Sidney; Now, for the More Radiance, Presented Without Their Setting by George MacDonald (1891)
  • The Hope of the Gospel (1892)
  • A Dish of Orts (1893)
  • Beautiful Thoughts from George MacDonald (1894), compiled by Elizabeth Dougall.

*What’s Mine’s Mine contains no Scots dialogue, but a special edition was released in 2023, with an introduction by Douglas Gresham and a preface by David Jack