
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.
Fantasy/ Fairy Tales
- Phantastes (1858)
- At the Back of the North Wind (1871)
- The Princess and the Goblin (1872)
- The Wise Woman (1875)
- The Princess and Curdie (1882)
- Lilith (1895)
Short story collections
- Dealings with the Fairies (1867)
- The Gifts of the Child Christ (1882)
- Cross Purposes and The Shadows (1890)
- The Light Princess (1893)
- The Fairy Tales of George MacDonald (1904)
- The Golden Key and Other Stories (1972)
- The Gray Wolf and Other Stories (1980)
- The Wise Woman and Other Stories (1980)
- The Portent and Other Stories (1994)
- The Complete Fairy Tales (1999)
Scottish Novels
- David Elginbrod (1863)
- Alec Forbes of Howglen (1865; Scots-English edition due out in 2024)
- Robert Falconer (1868; Scots-English edition released 2016)
- Malcolm (1875; Scots-English edition released 2020)
- The Marquis of Lossie (1877; Scots-English edition released 2021)
- Sir Gibbie (1879; Scots-English edition released 2018)
- Castle Warlock (1881; Scots-English edition released 2018)
- Donal Grant (1883; Scots-English edition released 2019)
- What’s Mine’s Mine (1886)*
- The Elect Lady (1888)
- Heather and Snow (1893)
- Salted With Fire (1897; Scots-English edition due out in 2023)
English Novels
- Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (1867)
- Guild Court: A London Story (1868)
- The Seaboard Parish (1869)
- Wilfrid Cumbermede (1871)
- The Vicar’s Daughter (1871)
- St. George and St. Michael (1876)
- Thomas Wingfold, Curate (1876)
- Paul Faber, Surgeon (1879)
- Mary Marston (1881)
- Weighed and Wanting (1882)
- Home Again (1887)
- There and Back (1891)
- The Flight of the Shadow (1891)
Other works
- Unspoken Sermons (1867)
- England’s Antiphon (1868, 1874)
- The Miracles of Our Lord (1870)
- 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.
- The Miracles of Our Lord (1848)
*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