Chapters (55)
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- CONTENTS
- Foreword to The Cullen Collection
- Introduction to Weighed and Wanting
- 1. A Bad Weather Holiday
- 2. An Eventful Walk
- 3. Hester Alone
- 4. The Aquarium
- 5. Amy Amber
- 6. Cornelius and Vavasor
- 7. Hester and Amy
- 8. A Beginning in Hester
- 9. A Private Exhibition
- 10. Vavasor and Hester
- 11. The Concert Room
- 12. Sudden Change
- 13. Yrndale
- 14. Down the Hill
- 15. Out of the Frying Pan
- 16. Waiting a Purpose
- 17. Major H. G. Marvel
- 18. The Major and Vavasor
- 19. A Walk Along the River
- 20. An Unpleasant Interview
- 21. Corney’s Holiday
- 22. A Distinguished Guest
- 23. Courtship in Earnest
- 24. Calamity
- 25. In London
- 26. A Talk with the Major
- 27. A Scuffle
- 28. Gartley and the Major
- 29. Further Down
- 30. Differences
- 31. Deep Calleth Unto Deep
- 32. Deliverance
- 33. On the Way Up
- 34. The Attic Room
- 35. Amy and Corney
- 36. Miss Vavasor
- 37. Mr. Christopher
- 38. An Arrangement
- 39. Things at Yrndale
- 40. The Return
- 41. A Sad Beginning
- 42. Mother and Son
- 43. Miss Dasomma and Amy
- 44. The Sick Room
- 45. Vengeance Is Mine
- 46. Father and Daughter-in-law
- 47. The Message
- 48. A Family
- 49. A Birthday Gift
- ENDNOTES
The Garden at the Edge of Beyond, 1998
The Commands of Jesus, 2012
Hell and Beyond, 2013
Bold Thinking Christianity, 2014
Heaven and Beyond, 2015
The Commands of the Apostles, 2015
George MacDonald and the Late Great Hell Debate, 2014
George MacDonald and the Atonement, 2014
George MacDonald’s Spiritual Vision: An Introductory Overview, 2016
George MacDonald’s Transformational Theology of the Christian Faith, 2017
George MacDonald A Writer’s Life, 2018
George MacDonald, Cullen, and Malcolm, 2019
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ENDNOTES
Foreword to The Cullen Collection
* A word of clarification at this point will hopefully alleviate minor confusions that may arise about certain usages of punctuation and capitalization. In speaking of the original texts of MacDonald’s books, a phrase such as the “texts by which they are generally known,” is not really accurate. For most of MacDonald’s books there are no absolutely authoritative texts. Editions vary widely, even so-called “first editions.” This is a theme that will be developed in the introductions to other editions of The Cullen Collection, and is a fascinating study in itself. Suffice it at this point to say that punctuation and capitalization varies. Sometimes the differences are between U.S. and U.K. editions—American publishers capitalizing lower case words from the British editions (in addition to changing words such as labour, honour, odour, parlour, neighbourhood, etc. to their American spellings). This is especially the case with the God-pronouns He and Him. MacDonald usually wrote these in the lower case, as he did nouns of direct address in dialogue—mother, father, aunt, uncle, your majesty, etc.—which are occasionally capitalized in U.S. editions.
The ambiguity is heightened, however, when MacDonald himself is inconsistent in his usage. Sometimes he does capitalize He and Him. Sometimes God is referred to as father, at other times as Father. But he is inconsistent (whether by intent or blunder I have never been able to ascertain)—with he and Him (both referring to God or Jesus), and father and Father, perhaps even occurring in the same sentence.
Punctuation, likewise, varies from edition to edition—colons, dashes, quotation marks, paragraph breaks being the most common differences. Quotation marks (‘single’) sometimes follow U.K. convention, at other times U.S. convention (“double”). But it is not so simple as whether a particular edition was published in the U.K. or U.S. Some U.K first editions use American quotation marks, and likewise some U.S. editions use British spellings. It is very confusing.