George MacDonald ~6 hr read

Through a mirror in his attic, a young man passes into a strange region of the dead and the not-yet-born, a spiritual wilderness ruled by the ancient, terrible Lilith.

George MacDonald's 1895 'Lilith' is a profound, visionary fantasy of death, redemption, and the soul, a key influence on Lewis and Tolkien. Strange, luminous, unforgettable. Read it for one of the deepest and most beautiful of all fantasy novels, a dreamlike pilgrimage toward the divine.

In its time

Published in 1895, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).