Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
George MacDonald
Jan 1858 · Smith, Elder
4.3star
21 reviews
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323
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About this ebook
Phantastes : A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald, first published in 1858, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation.
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4.3
21 reviews
Stephen Murray
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December 11, 2014
The prose is well constructed. A good personal journey through the shadows of his own psyche to find inner bliss from Fairy World and back home again. Alice in Wonderland meets Narnia and Lord of the Rings.
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CS Lewis, Tolkien, and others of the "inklings" were 'seeded' and inspired by MacDonald.
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He is in a sense the precursor of modern fantasy, the father of modern fantasy.
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MacDonald in turn was inspired by fairy tales, by Goethe, and by the Tales of Hoffman and Novalis (German).
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Read the story, of Phantastes, of Lillith, and see if it takes your heart and your imagination ?
Beauty, that reaches and touches something
My life ambition to write like him, and write books like Phantastes, & Lillith :-)
Haiko
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Kenneth Townsend
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January 23, 2014
Still like Lilith better, but this is good.
About the author
George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905.
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