Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald.

This the original and unabridged text formatted for modern readers.

The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) who is a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals.

C.S. Lewis wrote, concerning his first reading of Phantastes at age sixteen, "That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me, not unnaturally, took longer. I had not the faintest notion what I had let myself in for by buying Phantastes."

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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald.

This the original and unabridged text formatted for modern readers.

The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) who is a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals.

C.S. Lewis wrote, concerning his first reading of Phantastes at age sixteen, "That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me, not unnaturally, took longer. I had not the faintest notion what I had let myself in for by buying Phantastes."

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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

by George MacDonald
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (Original and Unabridged)

by George MacDonald

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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald.

This the original and unabridged text formatted for modern readers.

The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) who is a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals.

C.S. Lewis wrote, concerning his first reading of Phantastes at age sixteen, "That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me, not unnaturally, took longer. I had not the faintest notion what I had let myself in for by buying Phantastes."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781495323973
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 01/24/2014
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

About The Author

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister who was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature. A mentor to Lewis Carroll and a major influence on writers from C. S. Lewis to J. R. R. Tolkien, MacDonald’s best-known books are Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith, which are all fantasy novels.

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