Home Again - Macdonald, George
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""Home Again"" is a novel written by the renowned Scottish author George MacDonald. The story revolves around a young woman named Ethelwyn, who is forced to leave her home and family to live with her aunt and uncle in a different part of the country. Ethelwyn struggles to adjust to her new life, but eventually finds solace in her love for music and her friendship with a local pastor. However, when she receives news that her father is gravely ill, Ethelwyn must make the difficult decision to return home and face the demons of her past. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of…mehr

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""Home Again"" is a novel written by the renowned Scottish author George MacDonald. The story revolves around a young woman named Ethelwyn, who is forced to leave her home and family to live with her aunt and uncle in a different part of the country. Ethelwyn struggles to adjust to her new life, but eventually finds solace in her love for music and her friendship with a local pastor. However, when she receives news that her father is gravely ill, Ethelwyn must make the difficult decision to return home and face the demons of her past. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of forgiveness, redemption, and the power of love to heal even the deepest wounds. ""Home Again"" is a heartwarming and inspiring tale of one woman's journey to find her place in the world and the courage to confront her past in order to embrace her future.Walter was charmed. The singing, and the song through the singing, altogether exceeded his expectation. He had feared he should not be able to laud heartily, for he had not lost his desire to be truthful--but she was an artist! There was indeed nothing original in her music; it was mainly a reconstruction of common phrases afloat in the musical atmosphere; but she managed the slight dramatic element in the lyric with taste and skill, following tone and sentiment with chord and inflection; so that the music was worthy of the verses--which is not saying very much for either; while the expression the girl threw into the song went to the heart of the youth, and made him foolish.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish minister, poet, novelist, imaginative seer, and one of the most beloved Victorian authors throughout Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. A pioneering writer of modern fantasy literature, he was the mentor of Lewis Carroll. He has been cited as a major literary influence by dozens of illustrious authors including David Lindsay, J. M. Barrie, Lord Dunsany, Mark Twain, Hope Mirrlees, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Merton, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Neil Gaiman. In his lifetime he authored some fifty volumes of novels, poetry, short stories, fantasy, sermons, and essays.