Sir Gibbie. The Baronet's Song . The novel, 1879 . Translated into Russian: О. Lukmanova . The novel by the wonderful Scottish writer, poet George MacDonald (1824-1905), tells about the life of a small mute street boy Sir Gibby Galbraith. A light, moving narrative of friendship, faith, obedience, purity, selflessness, genuine nobility, poetry, and love for God and neighbor . It is hard to find another book in the English language that is as clear, with the same power of imagination, to describe the hidden greatness and heroism of everyday earthly life as Sir Gibby. Any thing can be touched, weighed, photographed, but the thought that awakened it to life can be shown only with the help of poetry. And although this story could only be told by a poet, it is about the most ordinary people. The heroes of this novel are the most ordinary people , In other words, , that they live their extraordinary or ordinary life and indulge in bright or gloomy reflections , sitting on a bare mountaintop or leaning on a carved church pulpit, Only because of CM. These are the properties of the body and soul ,. All of them, without exception, are ...