This will be the second, and final installment in a short series dealing with The Golden Key by George MacDonald. If you haven’t read it already, the first article can be found here, and the full text of The Golden Key can be read for free online. While there is...
In good sooth, my masters, this is no door. Yet it is a little window, that looks upon a great world. – the opening words of Phantastes George MacDonald is well known to many for his longer works, such as Phantastes, Lilith, or The Princess and the Goblin. ...
This is part I in a two-part article, and the first article in a series of posts that discuss the symbolism of a particular and peculiar literary tradition within Western Europe. Collectively, this body of works is called “the Bestiary.” To reduce this mysterious...
