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Original Title:	Phantastes: A Faerie Romance
ISBN:	160096401X (ISBN13: 9781600964015)
Edition Language:	English

Phantastes Paperback | Pages: 216 pages

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C.S. Lewis said that upon reading this astonishing 19th-century fairy tale he "had crossed a great frontier," and numerous others both before and since have felt similarly. In MacDonald's fairy tales, both those for children and (like this one) those for adults, the "fairy land" clearly represents the spiritual world, or our own world revealed in all of its depth and meaning. At times almost forthrightly allegorical, at other times richly dreamlike (and indeed having a close connection to the symbolic world of dreams), this story of a young man who finds himself on a long journey through a land of fantasy is more truly the story of the spiritual quest that is at the core of his life's work, a quest that must end with the ultimate surrender of the self. The glory of MacDonald's work is that this surrender is both hard won (or lost!) and yet rippling with joy when at last experienced. As the narrator says of a heavenly woman in this tale, "She knew something too good to be told." One senses the same of the author himself. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

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Title	:	Phantastes
Author	:	George MacDonald
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 216 pages
Published	:	July 30th 2008 by Waking Lion Press (first published 1858)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Classics. Literature. Fairy Tales. Christian

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Fantasy in water colors by the great maker of myth.

"Everywhere in Fairy Land forests are the places where one may most certainly expect adventures."I loved the vivid descriptions in this fantasy journey of Anodos, but it was so meandering that I got bogged down in this relatively short read. Sometimes I felt I was hearing the same story over and over just in a slightly different light or setting. There were definitely some sections, I found more enchanting than others, but overall it was just OK. Maybe its because the fantasy genre has come so

January 2020 review:What can I write about a book like Phantastes? Its a novel that seems like it wasnt crafted so much as found, its vignettesalternately dreamy or nightmarish, adventurous or languidnot invented but simply reported and transmitted through the pages, verbatim visions of the fairy world. It feels like a living book, a story that will respond to me in whatever way I need, depending on where I am and what I need at the moment. Ive read it twice in the past year, and in hoping to

I like a good faerie story, a nice romp in fairy lands. I especially like reading older fantasy novels to help this graph I have in my head showing the progression and evolution of fantasy in literature. MacDonald's book here, published in 1857, seemed like a good one to pick up - it's an early fantasy novel with an introduction by C.S. Lewis, possibly the world's first MacDonald fanboy (and OMG he drooled all over MacDonald in that introduction), and this MacDonald guy inspired not only Lewis,

I was pleasantly surprised by this book, as I normally do not read much "fantasy" literature, but then the author, George MacDonald, did clarify this is not the usual children's fairy tale in the title, Phantastes: A Fairie Romance for Men and Women. The story centers around Anodos who has turned 21 and heir to the estate of his father, who has died. Anodos is given the key to his father's secretary and his journey begins upon opening a small drawer in that desk releasing an aged, miniscule and

Atmosfere ottocentesce, romantiche, evocative, oniriche. Molte descrizioni e poca azione. Molta esperienza sentimentale e poche avventure. Le idee ci sono (Es. metaletteratura: la fiction permette di sperimentare e immedesimarsi in situazioni che non abbiamo vissuto in prima persona nella vita reale ma che comunque ci hanno trasmesso-insegnato qualcosa), gli sviluppi un po' meno. E' una materia acerba, ma già si sapeva - l'autore è diventato famoso con altri romanzi. In compenso questo libro ha