GEORGE MACDONALD (1824-1905), the Scottish author, turned to writing after a brief two years in the pulpit. Following publication of his first Scottish novels in the 1860s, he became widely known in the U.K. and U.S. as one of the most popular Victorian novelists of the day. Though his corpus of 50 widely diverse titles included poetry, sermons, essays, and stories, MacDonald’s enduring stature and reputation has rested on his three dozen realistic and fantasy novels. In his fiction and theological works, MacDonald presented a ground-breaking portrayal of God that continues to transform lives more than a century later. Renowned George MacDonald editor and biographer Michael Phillips here gives a bird's eye synopsis of the 37 titles of The Cullen Collection of the Fiction of George MacDonald , with brief reading suggestions based on his own insights and near-fifty year history reading MacDonald for himself. The six groupings of The Cullen Collection are discussed individually—The Early Scottish Novels, Six English Novels, Two English Trilogies, The Scottish Masterworks, The Short Novels, and MacDonald's Full Length Fantasies. Phillips highlights his reading suggestions with a closer look at his “Top Ten" list of what he considers MacDonald's most significant works. A brief synopsis of each novel rounds out this guide to MacDonald's corpus.