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Thomas Wingfold, Curate: Book One of the Wingfold Trilogy, by the man who inspired C.S. Lewis, complete and unabridged
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About Thomas Wingfold, Curate: Book One Of The Wingfold
GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905), Scottish poet, novelist, and minister, was a mentor to Lewis Carroll, friend of Mark Twain, and an inspiration to countless Christians. C.S. Lewis, author of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA,said of MacDonald, “I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself.” G.K. Chesterton wrote, “If we test the matter of originality of attitude, George MacDonald was one of the three of four greatest men of the 19th century.” Thomas Wingfold, Curate, one of MacDonald's greatest novels, is the first in a trilogy that also includes Paul Faber, Surgeon, and There and Back. Wingfold, the curate of Glaston, has never questioned the faith he preaches. But when challenged by a local atheist, his honesty drives him to probe his settled assent, and he finds that his house is built on sand. Assailed by doubt, he sets out to discover if there is any truth in the gospel story, and finds unlikely help in the figure of Polwarth the dwarf. Meanwhile, his frankness draws him into a dark mystery, and he is called to minister to one yet more desperate than himself...
