David Elginbrod
1863
In the windswept hills of rural Scotland, Margaret Elginbrod tends her father's modest household while a hunger for knowledge burns within her. When Hugh Sutherland arrives as tutor to a neighboring estate, he brings books, ideas, and a vision of life beyond the valley, and into Margaret's life. What unfolds is neither a simple romance nor a conventional coming-of-age tale, but something rarer: a patient exploration of how faith and intellect, humility and ambition, might coexist within a single human heart. MacDonald, writing from the depths of his own faith, crafts scenes of startling intimacy, a father's quiet wisdom, a mother's prayers, the weight of a book pressed into eager hands. This is his first realistic novel, a precursor to the fantasy masterpieces to come, yet it contains their essential spirit: the belief that the visible world is only half of reality. For readers who savor the quiet novel of manners, the philosophical conversation, the slow burn of ideas kindled between teacher and student.
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“It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different.””
— George MacDonald
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