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                            Introduction
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'Alec Forbes of Howglen' is a novel by George MacDonald, first
published in 1865, and is primarily concerned with Scottish country
life.


                              Synopsis
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The 'Howglen' described in the novel is probably a reference to George
MacDonald's childhood home in Huntly, Scotland, 'The Farm.'  The
'Glamour' river, on which the town of the novel is situated, has been
immortalized in the names of modern-day streets in Huntly, as well as
a children's park near the site of the old MacDonald family Mill.

Much of the original novel is written in the Doric, a dialect of North
East Scotland.  A subsequent edition "translates into readable English
the heaviest portions of the Scots dialect in which most of
MacDonald’s Scottish stories are written."


                Literary significance and criticism
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#No account of this story would give any idea of the profound interest
that pervades the work from the first page to the last. --Athenæum
#A novel of uncommon merit, Sir Walter Scott said he would advise no
man to try to read 'Clarissa Harlowe' out loud in company if he wished
to keep his character for manly superiority to tears. We fancy a good
many hardened old novel-readers will feel a rising in the throat as
they follow the fortunes of Alec and Annie. -Pall Mall Gazette.
#This book is full of good thought and good writing. Dr. Mac Donald
looks in his stories more to the souls of men and women than to their
social outside. He reads life and nature like a true poet. --Examiner
#The whole story is one of surpassing excellence and beauty." --Daily
News
#'Alec Forbes'...is very enjoyable, and the character of Annie
Anderson is one of the most delightful I have ever met with in
fiction. --Charles Lutwidge Dodgson


                           External links
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* [http://www.samizdat.qc.ca/arts/lit/PDFs/AlecForbesofHowglen_GM.pdf
'Alec Forbes of Howglen']. (Ebook - PDF format)


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