Hester laboured, and Christopher laboured. And if one was the heart and the other the head, the major was the right hand. But what they did and how they did it, would require a book, and no small one, to itself.

It is no matter that here I cannot tell their story. No man ever did the best work who copied another. Let every man work out the thing that is in him! Who, according to the means he has, great or small, does the work given him to do, stands by the side of the Saviour and is a fellow-worker with him. Be a brother after thy own fashion, only see it be a brother thou art.

The one who weighed, is found wanting the most, is the one whose tongue and whose life do not match, who says, “Lord! Lord!” and does not the thing the Lord says—the deacon who finds a good seat for the man in fine apparel and lets the poor widow stand in the aisle unheeded, the preacher who preaches on the love of God in the pulpit and looks for a rich wife in his flock, the missionary who would save the heathen but gives his own soul to greed, the woman who spends her strength for the poor and makes discord at home.

Books and series by and inspired by
GEORGE MACDONALD

This new series of MacDonald’s stories culminates a forty-year attempt that began in the 1970s to acquaint new generations of readers with the works of the man C.S. Lewis called his spiritual “master.” Throughout that time, it has been my prayerful life’s work to make MacDonald’s writings and ideas accessible and understandable to persons of all backgrounds with a complete range of literary interests. I have tried not only to expand availability of MacDonald’s writings, I have attempted also to shed light on how those writings can most fruitfully be read, interpreted, and placed in the context of MacDonald’s life. Listings of my own original writings, both fiction and non-fiction, are easily accessible from many sources in which, often indirectly, I try to point readers toward MacDonald. Most of the publications that bear specifically on MacDonald, as well as my new and edited editions of his books, are listed below.

M. P.

EDITIONS OF GEORGE MACDONALD’S BOOKS

Edited and published by Michael Phillips

The Bethany House Reprint Series

(18 Edited novels)—1982-1990

The Sunrise Centenary Editions of the Works of George MacDonald

(Original facsimile collector editions)—1988-1998

The Cullen Collection of the Fiction of George MacDonald, 2018-19

BY MICHAEL PHILLIPS

George MacDonald Scotland’s Beloved Storyteller, 1987

Universal Reconciliation, 1998