Lilith, a romance
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I took a walk on Spaulding’s Farm the additional afternoon. I saw the setting sun lighting up the opposite side of a stately pine wood. Its golden rays straggled into the aisles of the wood as into some noble hall. I was impressed as if some very ancient and altogether admirable and bright family tree had settled there in that part of the land called Concord, unknown to me,—to whom the sun was servant,—who had not gone into society in the village,—who had not been called on. I saw their park, their pleasure-ground, beyond through the wood, in Spaulding’s cranberry-meadow. The pines furnished them with gables as they grew. Their house was not obvious to vision; their trees grew through it. I do not know whether I heard the sounds of a suppressed hilarity or not. They seemed to recline on the sunbeams. They have sons and daughters. They are reasonably well. The farmer’s cart-path, which leads directly through their hall, does not in the least place them out,—as the muddy bottom of a pool is sometimes seen through the reflected skies. They never heard of Spaulding, and do not know that he is their national,—notwithstanding I heard him whistle as he drove his team through the house. Nothing can equal the serenity of their lives. Their coat of arms is simply a lichen. I saw it painted on the pines and oaks. Their attics were in the tops of the trees. They are of no politics. There was no noise of labor. I did not perceive that they were weaving or spinning. Yet I did detect, when the wind lulled and hearing was done away, the finest imaginable sweet musical hum,—as of a distant hive in May, which perchance was the sound of their thinking. They had no idle thoughts, and no one lacking could see their work, for their industry was not as in knots and excrescences embayed.
But I find it hard to remember them. They fade irrevocably out of my mind even now while I speak and endeavor to recall them, and recollect myself. It is only after a long and serious effort to recollect my best thoughts that I become again aware of their cohabitancy. If it were not for such families as this, I reflect I should go out of Concord.
Thoreau: “WALKING.”
Amazon.com Review
“Lilith is equal if not superior to the best of Poe,” the fantastic 20th-century poet W.H. Auden said of this novel, but the comparison only starts to touch on the fruitfulness, density, and marvel of this late 19th-century adult fantasy novel. First published in 1895 (inhabiting a universe with the early Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde–not to mention Thomas Hardy), this is the tale of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys into another world into which it leads him.
Meeting up with one mystery after another, including Adam and Eve themselves, he slowly but surely explores the mystery of the human fall from grace, and of our redemption. Instructed into the ways of seeing the deeper realities of this world–seeing, in a sense, by the light of the spirit–the reader and Mr. Vane both sense that MacDonald writes from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound that death’s darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. –Doug Thorpe
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This book is insane. He follows a Raven through a mirror into another world. There is also a lot of reference to the Bible and if you don’t know about the Bible you will get lost. The end is also very confusing. The end makes small sense and there is a sense of being unfinished to it. Some parts were ok but the overall book was weird and confusing.
My overall feeling towards the book was that it was weird. Broken up though, parts were ok. The begining was weird and confusing. The middle was pretty excellent. Escpecially when he is with the Small Ones. The end, but, is horrible. There really is no end. No one is really sure how it ends because of the abrupt and mysterious ending.
If fairy tales are your thing you might like this book, but if you want to read about something that has any chance of happening this book is not for you.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
David Marshall Christian Fundamentalist and leader of Jesus: Right Son who teaches in an obscure Japanese college (the Asian equivalent of Jerry Fallwells Liberty university, or Bob Jones university) proffers a review that’s a melange of mooniesm & unitarian universalism. People don’t read such authors as MacDonald or C.S. Lewis because of their religions but because they’re excellent WRITERS. Such sloppy effete preaching evinces the most ignorant criticism possible, the critic reads his own inadequacies into the text. Embarrassing. Tolkien’s & Lewis’s repeated admonitions NOT to read their books as allegories or parables is lost on such crude literalist’s, and even Lewis’s non-fiction is read because they’re written by him not because of their theme. Unless you see a thematic continuity between Lewis and the authors of the Left Behind series you’ll have to dismiss Marshall’s ideological misreading. Poet W.H. Auden could hardly have admired these writers for such simplistic reasons. Lafcadio Hearn a fantasy writer of MacDonalds own time regarded Christianity with mostly contempt. Known as Koizumi Yakumo in Japan.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Another reviewer has described Lilith as an anti-Calvinist allegory; but, universalism, with its fundamental denial of free will, doesn’t fall far from the Calvinist tree. Although the characters in Lilith might choose particular actions in any agreed situation, in the final analysis, on the huge ticket item they have no choice. They will serve, period. And MacDonald’s denial of the extistence of hell isn’t so much anti-Calvinist as it is anti-Christian orthodoxy.
So, despite the many excellent things that can be said about Lilith (e.g., its mythic characteristics, its depiction of and explanation on the scenery of grace, its presentation of God’s benevolence, its depiction of evil as a privation, and its description of the punishments meted out for sin even though MacDonald opines this punishment is only temporary), in the final analysis it is fundamentally heretical in its denial of the reality of hell and the being of free will. Therefore, it is a book better left unread. Read Lewis’ Perelandra as a replacement for (a book which obviously owes much to Lilith).
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This was a most appealing tale which was entertaining but did not seem to have much meaning behind it. That or I missed it, cause most of MacDonald’s stuff has depth. Like I said of Phantastes, this book is pure fairy tale, and should not be treated as a novel or more serious tale.
Note that the whole concept of Adam having a first wife before Eve is very odd, but should not ruin the book. Regardless of content, the imagery is brilliant, and the tale itself is wierd but enjoyable. What tends to stick out most is its sureal events and places, which is precisely the details that make excellent fairy tales. (that and brief simplicity)
I must admit it is reasonably engrossing if the reader allows themselves to be drawn in, which tends to take place whether or not you want it to.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
This book place me to sleep every time I went to read it. I read dry histories lacking falling asleep. This is a mighty indictment from me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5