Warlock O' Glenwarlock
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ISBN13: 9781438520285
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Warlock O' Glenwarlock (also entitled The Laird's Inheritance or Castle Warlock) George MacDonald was a 19th century Scottish writer, poet and minister. He is best known for his fairy tales and fantasies. His most popular works are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith. An excerpt from the beginning reads, "Upon a natural terrace in such a slope to the south, stood Castle Warlock. But it turned no smiling face to the region whence came the warmth and the growth. A more grim, repellant, unlovely building would be hard to find; and yet, from its extreme simplicity, its utter indifference to its own looks, its repose, its weight, and its gray historical consciousness, no one who loved houses would have thought of calling it ugly. It was like the hard-featured face of a Scotch matron, suggesting no end of story, of life, of character: she holds a defensive if not defiant face to the world, but within she is warm, tending carefully the fires of life. Summer and winter the chimneys of that desolate-looking house smoked; for though the country was inclement, and the people that lived in it were poor, the great, sullen, almost unhappy-looking hills held clasped to their bare cold bosoms, exposed to all the bitterness of freezing winds and summer hail, the warmth of household centuries: "
| ISBN-13 | 9781438520285 |
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| ISBN-10 | 143852028X |
| Weight | 1.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 7.50 x 0.91 x 9.25 In |
| List Price | $21.45 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 452 pages |
| Publisher | Book Jungle |
| Published On | 2009-06-09 |
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