Citation: George MacDonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867).

Serialized in The Sunday Magazine in 1866.

Bulloch (1925):

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood. By George MacDonald, M.A. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867 (1866).

8vo

  • vol. 1: pp. vi + 386
  • vol. II: pp. vi + 321 + 1
  • vol III: pp vi + 276

Printed by Ballantyne, Edinburgh.

Serialised as “by the vicar” in The Sunday Magazine (Oct., 1865-Sept., 1866), ii., 24-33,73-85, 3-203,217-229,281-291,353-365, 425-434,497-510, 569-582, 641-642, 713-724, 785-795. With eight woodcut illustrations by Robert Barnes, three by William Small, and one head-piece by T. Salmon.

Reviewed in the British Quarterly Review (Jan. 1867), xlv., 247-248: “The book is one of great wisdom and goodness.” It was while at Arundel that MacDonald stored the material for this novel. Some critics think it the best of all the English novels.

  • 1867. Published in one volume by Hurst and Blackett, though the English Catalogue attributes this and the first edition to Strahan.
  • 1867. Published as vols. 881 and 882 of Tauchnitz’s Collection of British Authors: 8vo, pp. 310 + 2: pp. 295 + 1.
  • 1867. Published by Harper, New York: 12 mo, pp. 381 (New York Pub. Lib.).
  • 1872. Published by Strahan, London.
  • 1873. Published by D. Lothrop, Boston (American Cat.).
  • 1877. Published by Daldy, Isbister, London.
  • 1884. Published by Kegan Paul.
  • 1886. Published by Strahan.
  • 1892. Published by Kegan Paul.
  • 1893. Published as no. 758 of the Franklin Square Library, by Harper, New York.
  • 1901. Published by Kegan Paul, pp. 596: price is. 6d.
  • N.D. Published by McKay, Philadelphia.

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