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Description A Book of Strife In The Form Of The Diary of an Old Soul by George Mac Donald George Mac Donald (10 December 1824 - 18 September 1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister.

He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.

His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W.

Auden, C.

Lewis, J.

Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E.

Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle.

Lewis wrote that he regarded Mac Donald as his master Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read.

A few hours later, said Lewis, I knew that I had crossed a great frontier.

Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had made a difference to my whole existence.

Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling.

Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked Mac Donald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by Mac Donald.

Christian author Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) wrote in Christian Disciplines, vol.

1, (pub.

1934) that it is a striking indication of the trend and shallowness of the modern reading public that George Mac Donald's books have been so neglected.

In addition to his fairy tales, Mac Donald wrote several works on Christian apologetics including several that defended his view of Christian Universalism.