Identify Books As Phantastes
| Original Title: | Phantastes: A Faerie Romance |
| ISBN: | 160096401X (ISBN13: 9781600964015) |
| Edition Language: | English |
George MacDonald
Paperback | Pages: 216 pages Rating: 3.93 | 7693 Users | 719 Reviews
Details Out Of Books Phantastes
| 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 |
Explanation Conducive To Books Phantastes
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.
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Rating Out Of Books Phantastes
Ratings: 3.93 From 7693 Users | 719 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Phantastes
I read this because of my interest in fantasy, and this is a pre-J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy. In short my reaction to it can be summed up like this: it is a book that took me a very, very long time to get through it. There is something about the writing style that made it a sloooow read for me. I can't say I liked it that much, but I found some interesting things in it, so in some sense I'm glad I read it.
Very good. Now if only I could understand more of the symbolism....
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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,
On his twenty-first birthday, Anodos entered his father's study and opens a drawer where a little woman that claims to be his grandmother grants his wish to go to fairy-land. With many tests to pass, will he pass them all to make it into Fairy-land or is all just a fantasy? Read on and find out for yourself.This was a pretty good read and my first ever read by George Macdonald. It was full of action, adventure, prose and was a very whimsical fantasy. Look for this book at your local library and
Fantasy in water colors by the great maker of myth.
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