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David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel. A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter... Read Full Overview

A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant, and his daughter. A vein of mysticism runs through the story, and mesmerism and electro-biology are introduced... Read Full Overview

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel.Plot introductionA novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen.A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant,... Read Full Overview

This work was the first of the famed fantasy novelist's novels in the style of realism. It tells the story of Hugh Sutherland, a young Scotsman who, while facing personal trials, befriends David Elginbrod and his daughter, Maggie. Readers and critics alike have praised and cherished... Read Full Overview

This work was the first of the famed fantasy novelist's novels in the style of realism. It tells the story of Hugh Sutherland, a young Scotsman who, while facing personal trials, befriends David Elginbrod and his daughter, Maggie. Readers and critics alike have praised and cherished... Read Full Overview

David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel.

A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen.

A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant,... Read Full Overview

David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel.

A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen.

A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant,... Read Full Overview

I hope my readers will not suppose that I give this as a specimen of Scotch prayers. I know better than that. David was an unusual man, and his prayers were unusual prayers. The present was a little more so in its style, from the fact that one of the subjects of it was absent,... Read Full Overview

"Meg whaur are ye gaein' that get, like a wull shuttle? Come in to the beuk." Meg's mother stood at the cottage door, with arms akimbo and clouded brow, calling through the boles of a little forest of fir-trees after her daughter. One would naturally presume that the phrase she... Read Full Overview

David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel. Plot introduction--A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen. A story of humble life, centering in two saintly personalities, a dignified and pious Scottish peasant,... Read Full Overview