Lilith

A door in his own attic that should not be there, a raven who is a sexton, and a queen who cannot sleep and will not die.

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About this edition

A man opens a door in his own attic that should not be there, follows a raven through a mirror, and steps out of the world into a strange twilight country: a land of the dead and the not yet dead, of ravens who are sextons, of children who will not grow, and of a beautiful, terrible queen who cannot sleep and will not die.

Published in 1895, near the end of his life, Lilith is George MacDonald’s last and darkest romance, a visionary fantasy of sin, sleep and awakening in which the living must learn to die before they can truly wake. Its queen, Lilith, is Adam’s first wife of ancient legend, pride incarnate, the night that must be redeemed before the morning can come.

The father of modern fantasy, and the writer C. S. Lewis called his master, MacDonald here reaches his strangest and most beautiful. This edition restores his Thoreau epigraph and sets all forty-seven chapters afresh, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• George MacDonald (1824–1905)
• The complete 1895 romance, all forty-seven chapters
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 320 pages