David Elginbrod

This new edition of George MacDonald's 1863 classic is updated and introduced as Volume 2 in The Cullen Collection by Michael Phillips.Unable to get as much of his poetry and fantasy published as he would have liked, one of MacDonald’s publishers remarked, “I tell you, Mr. MacDonald, if you would but write novels, you would find all the publishers saving up to buy them of you. Nothing but fiction pays.” Eventually MacDonald decided to try his hand at realistic fiction, and David Elginbrod was published in 1863. His publisher’s words proved prophetic—within a few years publishers were indeed lining up to buy his books.The immediate success of David Elginbrod launched MacDonald’s career as one of the preeminent Victorian novelists of his day. Partially set in MacDonald’s homeland of northern Scotland, the story of Hugh Sutherland and Margaret Elginbrod is replete with the dialect and thorough “Scottishness” that became MacDonald’s trademark. The story takes the characters into the eerie