Fairy Tales
About this audiobook
George MacDonald, described by W.H. Auden as ‘one of the most remarkable writers of the 19th century’, was valued in his own time as an original thinker and spiritual guide. Of all his writing it is the fairy tales that have retained their fascination, and this collection includes all 11 stories, including The Light Princess, The Golden Key and The Wise Woman.
The fairy tales feature the stock characters of traditional tales – fairies both good and bad, and children undertaking precarious journeys. Often adopting paradox and nonsense as Lewis Carroll did, the stories invite adults to deploy the same open-mindedness as children. In MacDonald’s own words, ‘I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or 50, or 75.’
About the author
Georgina Sutton trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. She has worked extensively in repertory theatres around the UK and her audio work includes voice commercials for Classic FM. Among her recordings for Naxos AudioBooks are Thackeray’s Vanity Fair,
Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Eliot’s Adam Bede, Brontë’s Shirley and Lawrence’s The Virgin and the Gypsy.
David Timson has made over 1,000 broadcasts for BBC Radio Drama. For Naxos AudioBooks he has written The History of Theatre, an award- winning production read by Derek Jacobi, and directed four Shakespeare plays including King Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh). He has also
read the entire Sherlock Holmes canon and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
