Malcolm (Translated)

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**Featuring English translations of all Scots dialogue side-by-side with the original text</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**Introduction by Douglas Gresham stepson of C.S. Lewis</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**Translator's preface by David Jack</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>**Original illustrations by Carrie Stout</strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Malcolm</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> first published in 1875 is unique among MacDonald's novels in that its setting-and consequently its language-savours more than any other of his native northeast of Scotland. It also features his most carefully constructed plot (centring around the identity of his young fisherman-hero) and one of his most colourful casts of characters. Since the entire tale unfolds in the small coastal village of Portlossie the author has been able to create at least for the non-Scottish reader the feeling of a world set apart: but the sheer grandeur of the tale its deep-laid plots and its deeper humanity and truth will have an appeal not merely local but universal.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In his preface to the Scots/English edition translator David Jack stresses the importance of the author's native Doric hailing Malcolm as a feast of language and a unique chance to luxuriate. The story's fisherman-hero he identifies as one of MacDonald's most vivid types of Christ: a young man with a passion both for service and adventure who worthily bears the name of Scotland's ancient kings.</span></p><p></p>