Mary Marston George MacDonald Author

MARY MARSTON OR LATER TITLED A DAUGHTER'S DEVOTION IS A WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN NOVEL OF 509 PAGES! A GREAT READ!The story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston's unswerving commitment to love God and others is contrasted... Read more

MARY MARSTON OR LATER TITLED A DAUGHTER'S DEVOTION IS A WONDERFUL CHRISTIAN NOVEL OF 509 PAGES! A GREAT READ!The story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston's unswerving commitment to love God and others is contrasted with a backdrop of an array of characters and a complex and sometimes mysterious plot. It is a story of a woman who loves a man, and teaches him to change. Not out of his love for her, but simply because it was the right thing to do. MacDonald allows the characters a range from delightful to devious. As such, they were intended to serve as models. His message is that all eventually must stand before God.Book Excerpts:It was an evening early in May. The sun was low and the street was mottled with the shadows of its paving-stones-smooth enough but far from evenly set. The sky was clear except for a few clouds in the west hardly visible in the dazzle of the huge light which lay among them like a liquid that had broken its vessel and was pouring over the fragments.The moment she came to herself, apprehension changed into active dread, rushed into uncontrollable terror. She sprang to her feet, and, the worst thing she could do, fled like the wind after Tom-- now, indeed, she imagined, her only refuge She knew where he had put up his horse, and knew he could hardly take any other way than the foot-path to Testbridge. He could not be more than a few yards ahead of her, she thought. Presently she heard him whistling, she was sure, as he walked leisurely along, but she could not see him.J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle had great regard for MacDonald. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his master. Even Mark Twain, who initially despised MacDonald, became friends with him.Looking for another good book? Just click on the name TLC BOOKS at the top of the page, next to the title, or write at the search box …TLC BOOKS …you will be taken to our main page, where you will be able to peruse all the titles…many are Christian and Wholesome titles Less