Portent

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Fantasy Fiction

Authors: George MacDonald In Year : 1894

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Portent

Preface
Chapter 1: My Boyhood
Chapter 2: The Second Hearing
Chapter 3: My Old Nurse's Story
Chapter 4: Hilton Hall
Chapter 5: Lady Alice
Chapter 6: My Quarters
Chapter 7: The Library
Chapter 8: The Somnambulist
Chapter 9: The First Waking
Chapter 10: Love and Power
Chapter 11: A New Pupil
Chapter 12: Confession
Chapter 13: Questioning
Chapter 14: Jealousy
Chapter 15: The Chamber of Ghosts
Chapter 16: The Clanking Shoe
Chapter 17: The Physician
Chapter 18: Old Friends
Chapter 19: Old Constancy
Chapter 20: Margaret
Chapter 21: Hilton
Chapter 22: The Sleeper
Chapter 23: My Old Room
Chapter 24: Prison-Breaking
Chapter 25: New Entrenchments
Chapter 26: Escape
Chapter 27: Freedom

Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highlands to make his fortune in the world. When he finds the woman whose destiny is mingled with his, he must overcome first her indifference, then the malice of her family, then the forces of space and time. Will he ever put to rest the old curse?

George MacDonald was an influence on many famous fantasy writers, including C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle. This fantasy romance derives from MacDonald's own Celtic tradition of the "Second Sight". It is a daydream, but one which holds up a mirror to human nature and shows us the truth of ourselves, as well as being a work of art in itself. (summary by Beth Thomas and Gemma Myers)