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George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish minister, poet and novelist whose fantasies stand at the fountainhead of the genre. Phantastes and Lilith pioneered the adult fantasy novel, while The Princess and the Goblin and At the Back of the North Wind became children's classics. A direct and acknowledged influence on C. S. Lewis (who called him his 'master'), Tolkien and G. K. Chesterton, he gave fantasy much of its moral and mythic depth.
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