The Gray Wolf and Other Fantasy Stories

<DIV>George MacDonald (1824-1905) the great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy influenced not only C. S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales <I>Lilith</I> and <I>Phantastes</I> are particularly famous much of MacDonald's best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonald's finest short works--marvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.</DIV>