| This difficult novel addresses the fundamental questions of individual identity and the meaning of an individual's actions in a moral and ethical context that can never be completely understood. The plot follows the young narrator, Mr. Vane, through a series of adventures in a world where the dead grow toward perfection and small children overcome the defenses of a corrupt civilization. A reader who is interested primarily in fantastic worlds and imaginative depictions of adventures will probably be disappointed in the novel; because they are only incidental to the story MacDonald is telling. |
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