Heather and Snow
1893
Published in 1893, 'Heather and Snow' by George MacDonald is a novel set in Scotland that explores the relationship between Kirsty, a practical girl, and Francis, an ambitious boy. Their interactions reveal themes of class distinction and the true meaning of worth as they navigate their youthful aspirations and societal expectations. The story highlights the complexities of friendship and personal ambition against a backdrop of differing social standings.
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“Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children! The fact of their being children implied their need of an all-powerful father: must there not then be such a father? Therewith the truth dawned upon him, that first of truths, which all his church-going and Bible-reading had hitherto failed to disclose, that, for life to be a good thing and worth living, a man must be the child of a perfect father, and know him. In his terrible perturbation about his children, he lifted up his heart”
— George MacDonald
“But in truth there was more expression in the flower than was yet in the face. The flower expressed what God was thinking of when He made it; the face, what the girl was thinking of her self. When she ceased thinking of herself, then, like the flower, she would show what God was thinking of when he made her.””
— George MacDonald
“There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest!””
— George MacDonald
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