Description
A story of a hopeless romantic college student who is love struck by a lovely girl who does not love him back. The Cruel Painter consists of these chapter tales: The Portent; The Cruel Painter; The Castle; The Wow O Rivven; The Broken Swords; The Gray Wolf; and Uncle Cornelius His Story. George MacDonald was a Scottish writer, poet, and Christian clergy. He was a forerunning character in the category of fantasy fiction and the mentor of fellow author Lewis Carroll. His works have been quoted as a great literary inspiration by several outstanding writers such as W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L’ Engle. C. S. Lewis commented that he considered George MacDonald as his “master”: “Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later,” stated Lewis, “I knew that I had crossed a great frontier.” G. K. Chesterton alluded to The Princess and the Goblin as a story that had “made a difference to my whole existence”. Elizabeth Yates scribbled of Sir Gibbie, “It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling.” Even Mark Twain, who at first detested George, became close with him, and there are a few signs that Mark was encouraged by George. Christian writer Oswald Chambers penned in his Christian Disciplines that “it is a striking indication of the trend and shallowness of the modern reading public that George MacDonald’s books have been so neglected”. In supplement to his fairy tales, George composed many writings on Christian apologetics such as those that upheld an insight that has been defined as Christian Universalism.