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Lilith: A Romance

George MacDonald

Mr. Vane discovers a mysterious parallel universe through his library mirror, guided by the enigmatic Mr. Raven.

"Lilith: A Romance" by George MacDonald is a fantasy novel. Mr. Vane discovers a mysterious parallel universe through his library mirror, guided by the enigmatic Mr. Raven.

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I had just finished my studies at Oxford, and was taking a brief holiday from work before assuming definitely the management of the estate. My father died when I was yet a child; my mother followed him within a year; and I was nearly as much alone in the world as a man might find himself.

I had made little acquaintance with the history of my ancestors. Almost the only thing I knew concerning them was, that a notable number of them had been given to study. I had myself so far inherited the tendency as to devote a good deal of my time, though, I confess, after a somewhat desultory fashion, to the physical sciences. It was chiefly the wonder they woke that drew me. I was constantly seeing, and on the outlook to see, strange analogies, not only between the facts of different sciences of the same order, or between physical and metaphysical facts, but between physical hypotheses and suggestions glimmering out of the metaphysical dreams into which I was in the habit of falling. I was at the same time much given to a premature indulgence of the impulse to turn hypothesis into theory. Of my mental peculiarities there is no occasion to say more.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter I. The Library
  2. 02Chapter II. The Mirror
  3. 03Chapter III. The Raven
  4. 04Chapter IV. Somewhere or Nowhere?
  5. 05Chapter V. The Old Church
  6. 06Chapter VI. The Sexton’s Cottage
  7. 07Chapter VII. The Cemetery
  8. 08Chapter VIII. My Father’s Manuscript
  9. 09Chapter IX. I Repent
  10. 10Chapter X. The Bad Burrow
  11. 11Chapter XI. The Evil Wood
  12. 12Chapter XII. Friends and Foes
  13. 13Chapter XIII. The Little Ones
  14. 14Chapter XIV. A Crisis
  15. 15Chapter XV. A Strange Hostess
  16. 16Chapter XVI. A Gruesome Dance
  17. 17Chapter XVII. A Grotesque Tragedy
  18. 18Chapter XVIII. Dead or Alive?
  19. 19Chapter XIX. The White Leech
  20. 20Chapter XX. Gone!—But How?
  21. 21Chapter XXI. The Fugitive Mother
  22. 22Chapter XXII. Bulika
  23. 23Chapter XXIII. A Woman of Bulika
  24. 24Chapter XXIV. The White Leopardess
  25. 25Chapter XXV. The Princess
  26. 26Chapter XXVI. A Battle Royal
  27. 27Chapter XXVII. The Silent Fountain
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII. I Am Silenced
  29. 29Chapter XXIX. The Persian Cat
  30. 30Chapter XXX. Adam Explains
  31. 31Chapter XXXI. The Sexton’s Old Horse
  32. 32Chapter XXXII. The Lovers and the Bags
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII. Lona’s Narrative
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV. Preparation
  35. 35Chapter XXXV. The Little Ones in Bulika
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI. Mother and Daughter
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII. The Shadow
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII. To the House of Bitterness
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX. That Night
  40. 40Chapter XL. The House of Death
  41. 41Chapter XLI. I Am Sent
  42. 42Chapter XLII. I Sleep the Sleep
  43. 43Chapter XLIII. The Dreams That Came
  44. 44Chapter XLIV. The Waking
  45. 45Chapter XLV. The Journey Home
  46. 46Chapter XLVI. The City
  47. 47Chapter XLVII. The “Endless Ending”

About this edition

Author
George MacDonald
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Introductory: no background needed
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
227 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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