Phantastes, A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

by George MacDonald

Overview

The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" or "ascent" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German

Romanticism, particularly Novalis. The story concerns 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."

A biography about MacDonald and other annotated notes are also included in this book.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013437906
Publisher:	Golgotha Press
Publication date:	12/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	229 KB

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.