About this title: Lilith, by nineteenth-century Christian novelist, George MacDonald, is the chronicle of five trips taken by its narrator, Mr. Vane, into another world where, under the spell of MacDonald's extraordinary imagination, he explores the ultimate mystery of evil. The volume is introduced by C.S. Lewis.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: LION BOOK
Date Published: 1986
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN-13:9780802860613ISBN:0802860613
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lion Publishing
Date Published: 19/11/1982
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lion Publishing
Date Published: 19/11/1982
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Publisher: Lion Publishing
Date Published: 19/11/1982
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wilder Publications, Limited
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780802860613ISBN:0802860613
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780802860613ISBN:0802860613
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Date Published: 1981-08
ISBN-13:9780802860613ISBN:0802860613
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Wildside Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781587159749ISBN:1587159740
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"A very curious book. Occasionally humorous, often poetic, and always absurd in a dreamlike way.
Best read before bed, as it will give you the strangest dreams. If you read it in the day, you're head might very well be muddled until you go to sleep."
"The book is as difficult as people say it is, but I found it worth the effort. C. S. Lewis's introduction was a big help to me in getting into the book, and you can recognize in it many places that are reflected in Lewis' own writings. The evangelism of Lilith was perhaps the most remarkable and illuminating description I've ever read of the struggle of a person to come to faith."
"As my brother accurately described it, it starts out as a sort of Christian acid trip/Alice in Wonderland type experience. For the first half of the book you have almost no idea what is actually going on, but it's worth sticking it through because later it all falls into place. The story takes it's premise from an old Jewish myth about a companion named Lilith whom God gave to Adam before Eve. She was an angelic being, not human, and couldn't reconcile herself to the vocation of bearing Adam's children to populate the earth. They had a single child together before their relationship was abandoned and Lilith was replaced by a more fitting companion taken from Adam's side. Because of Eve's later fruitfulness Lilith bore an eternal hatred towards the human race. Most of the myth remains in the background however and the story centers on a man who stumbles through a mirror into an alternate realm where Adam, Eve, and Lilith continue to carry out their perpetual feud. The climax of the story involves Adam, the Father of mankind, and Mara, the Lady of Sorrows, leading Lilith grudgingly toward repentance. A parallel plot line involves the main character slowly learning how little it is he actually knows about what he has hitherto simply called "reality." Only after he willingly choosing to lie down in the House of the Dead is he able to rise to a fullness of life of which he has never before even dared to dream. C.S. Lewis has been quoted as saying that this book "baptized his imagination," and for good reason. The writing style leaves something to be desired (it is heavy and plodding in places), but the sheer myth of it is amazing. In my opinion, the entire story was worth the final few chapters which turn out to be a glimpse of what earthly life will be like after the resurrection of the dead. It is absolutely beautiful in its description. If you have yet to long for the world to come, this story may help take you a long way down that road. And, better yet, teach you to look for the glimpses of the heavenly kingdom which even now break through into the present world. Here is my favorite passage along those lines from Lilith:
"Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through. Sometimes when I am abroad, a like thing takes place; the heavens and the earth, the trees and the grass appear for a moment to shake as if about to pass away; then, lo, they have settled again into the old familiar face! At times I seem to hear whisperings around me, as if some that loved me were talking of me; but when I would distinguish the words, they cease, and all is very still. I know not whether these things rise in my brain or enter it from without. I do not seek them, they come, and I let them go.
"Strange dim memories, which will not abide identification, often, through the misty windows of the past, look out upon me in the broad daylight, but I never dream now. It may be, notwithstanding, that, when most awake, I am only dreaming the more! But when I wake at last into that life which, as a mother her child, carries this life in its bosom, I shall know that I wake, and shall doubt no more.
"I wait; asleep or awake, I wait.
"Our life is no dream, but it should and will perhaps become one.""
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