George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a writer whose style, ideas, person, and genres of work defy quick analysis and simple interpretation. His books, from their beginnings in the mid 1850s to this present day, have always elicited strong and extremely varied responses. They were both extolled and criticized in his own time, and have been revered and ignored in our own. This seris is a gathering together of articles, essays, studies, and personal glimpses about the writings and person of George MacDonald so that 20th century readers of his works will have tools at their disposal to enable them more fully to understand his message.