The Golden Key 0.00 Introduction

Since I haven't been able to come up with enough stuff that I am willing to post here on a consistent basis, I have come up with something of a project. I am going to try and translate The Golden Key by George MacDonald into Japanese. I will begin my work alone, but will credit any of my Japanese friends who deign to help me in the process. The Golden Key is a short story with only 17 pages of text, but the story blows my mind every time I read it. I would recommend it to everyone as a must read that won't take much time to read.

As a bit of a trivia though, I think I must introduce George MacDonald. He was a writer of fantasy whose writings had a strong enough influence on C.S. Lewis to gain him the immortal position of Lewis's otherworldly guide in The Great Divorce and to gain the honor of having an anthology compiled under C.S. Lewis's scrutinous eye. Additionally, George MacDonald was also a friend of a certain author who wrote under the pen name Lewis Carrol. The extreme ability of these two authors in writing of wonderous fantasy worlds is on the same level of such great books as The Lord of the Rings and Narnia. I recommend that those who are interested in knowing more read MacDonald's Lilith in which I am quite certain Edgar Allen Poe found his inspiration for his poem The Raven, which is quite recently quoted "nevermore".

I would recommend these books of George MacDonald's.
(note:some of which you can find on librivox.org)
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and Curdie
The Light Princess
The Lost Princess (AKA The Wise Woman: A parable) *A must read*
Phantastes
Lilith

The last two are examples of MacDonald's adult fiction which are a little heavier read than the other stories.

省略：　とにかくこれからジョージマクドナルドの小説を日本語に翻訳しようとするんだ。　　話は十七枚だけで短いけど物凄くいい話だよ。
ジョージマクドナルドはまだ知らない人のためにちょっとの紹介をしようと思っている。　マクドナルドさんは基本的にファンタジーの作家なんだけど彼が書いたことは二つの種類に分けることが出来るんだよ。　それは子供のファンタジーと大人っぽいファンタジーだ。　こういう場合には大人っぽいファンタジーは基本的に子供のファンタジーっぽいけどテーマはもっと複雑だし単語ももっと難しいしそれとも恐ろしいことも起こるよ。　
この二つのスタイルの中にはザゴールデンキーは子供のファンタジーだけどこの様な話の作り方が想像できないほど深い意味が含まれている。　僕は三回以上読んだけどまだ理解出来ないことがあるから何回も読んだら飽きないよ。　　さ、この紹介のせいで読んでみりん。　　＾＿＾