Macdonald, George – Adela Cathcart Volume 1-3

by George MacDonald

Adelia Cathcart has an illness of the spirit — perhaps an illness of the soul. No one can scry the secret of her malady. Until someone notices Adelia seems for a moment to come back to life as someone tells a story.  We should read her stories, he says. Beautiful, beautiful stories.  And these are the stories that bring Adelia back from her deathbed: stories like the tale o…more Adelia Cathcart has an illness of the spirit — perhaps an illness of the soul. No one can diagnose the secret of her malady. Until someone notices, Adelia seems for a moment to come back to life as someone tells a story.  We should read her stories, he says. Beautiful, beautiful stories.  And these are the stories that bring Adelia back from her deathbed: stories like the tale of the Light Princess, the tale of a cursed girl like Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty who weighs no more than a breeze. She has an illness of the spirit, too — an illness both like and unlike Adelia’s.