I’m a footnote hunter. By that I mean, when I find an author I particularly like I search out their sources and the writers they rely on and who influenced them. I’ve actually found some of my favorite books this way, and I encourage you to do the same. One of the authors for whom… Continue reading Phantastes, George MacDonald
Tag: Fairy Tales
Pan’s Labyrinth
A Child’s Story of Hope in the Midst of Suffering I often think about something C.S. Lewis wrote in On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature. He said, “When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty,… Continue reading Pan’s Labyrinth