Scottish novelist George MacDonald authored 37 novels published between 1858 and 1898. Many of his books were edited, condensed, and republished under other titles in the 1980s and 1990s, most notably by Michael Phillips and Dan Hamilton.
MacDonald’s novels are coming back in print with their original titles, thanks to Michael Phillips’ edited and expanded versions in The Cullen Collection and David Jack’s side-by-side English-Scots translations. However, a whole generation of readers knows MacDonald’s titles best by the names given them by Michael Phillips and Dan Hamilton.
This bibliographic table is presented in order to help readers familiarize themselves with titles old and new, as well as to aid in finding the original version they knew by an alternate title. Series names have been given in an attempt to group books together with their sequels.
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MacDonald’s Fantasy and Fiction
(as categorized in The Cullen Collection by Michael Phillips)
Early Scottish Novels
- David Elginbrod
- The Portent
- Alec Forbes of Howglen
- Robert Falconer
- Ranald Bannerman’s Boyhood
- Gutta Percha Willie
The Scottish Masterworks
The Short Novels
- Home Again
- The Elect Lady
- A Rough Shaking
- The Flight of the Shadow
- Heather and Snow
- Salted With Fire
- Far Above Rubies
English Novels
- Adela Cathcart
- Guild Court
- Wilfrid Cumbermede
- St. George and St. Michael
- Mary Marston
- Weighed and Wanting
English Trilogies
Full-Length Fantasies
MacDonald’s Scottish Novels
(as categorized by David Strachan Robb in his 1980 thesis)
- David Elginbrod
- Alec Forbes of Howglen
- Robert Falconer
- Malcolm
- The Marquis of Lossie
- Sir Gibbie
- Castle Warlock
- Donal Grant
- What’s Mine’s Mine
- The Elect Lady
- Heather and Snow
- Salted With Fire
(What’s Mine’s Mine has only a solitary Scots poem, while Malcolm and Salted With Fire have the most extreme dialect of the twelve.)
Free Online Sources for the Original, Unedited Works of George MacDonald
- Loyal Books (ebooks and audiobooks)
- Librivox (audiobooks)
- Project Gutenberg
- Amazon Kindle
- The Literature Network
- ReadPrint
References
- Michael Phillips Edited Versions of the Novels
- The Original Writings of George MacDonald
- George MacDonald Society
- George MacDonald and Dan Hamilton
- The New Classics of George MacDonald
- Scottish Novels of George MacDonald
- Special thanks to Michael Phillips and David Jack for answering clarifying questions via email.
