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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.

Fantasy/ Fairy Tales

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