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adela cathcart vol i
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 . adela cathcart was published in 1864 . the story begins it was the afternoon of christmas eve sinking towards the night . all day long the wintry light had been diluted with fog and now the vanguard of the darkness coming to aid the mist the dying day was well nigh smothered between them . when i looked through the window it was into a vague and dim solidification of space a mysterious region in which awful things might be going on and out of which anything might come ; but out of which nothing came in the meantime except small sparkles of snow or rather ice which as we swept rapidly onwards and the darkness deepened struck faster and faster against the weather windows . for we that is myself and a fellow passenger of whom i knew nothing yet but the waistcoat and neckcloth having caught a glimpse of them as he searched for an obstinate railway ticket were in a railway carriage darting along at an all but frightful rate northwards from london .
paperback book jungle 2009 isbn13 9781438519289 isbn10 1438519281
abridged n isbn 13 9781438519289 number in series 1 number of pages 146 publisher book jungle release date 62135769600000