George MacDonaldThe Shadows (November 25, 2007)

"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies..."

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 – September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer well known, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired admiration in such notables as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. The Shadows is one such fairy tale. The strange Shadows spend their existence casting themselves upon the walls and forming pictures of various sorts: mimicking evil actions of those who have done wrong in the hopes of causing their repentance, playing a comic dumb-show to inspire a playwright and dancing to inspire a musician, nudging a little girl to comfort her grandfather, and playing with a sick little boy as he waits for his mother to return home. For all that their forms are black, their hearts are of the whitest. (Summary by Wikipedia and Catharine Eastman)

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This item is part of the collection: LibriVox

Author: George MacDonald
Date: 2007-11-25
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobook; fantasy

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: squirrel99 - - April 18, 2008
Subject: The Shadows

This story is not as engaging as some of MacDonald's stories still it is a great bedtime story. Well read by a great reader.