Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Download or read book Phantastes Illustrated Edition written by George MacDonald and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald. The story centers on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. It concerns a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and over there he 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. George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
Download or read book Phantastes A Faerie Romance for Men and Women written by George MacDonald and published by VM eBooks. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women PREFACE CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2018-01-07T22:10:00Z with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes was published in 1858. It tells the story of Anodos, who, on coming of age, is examining the effects of his deceased father. To his astonishment, in doing so he sees an apparition of a fairy woman, who tells him that he has some fairy blood and conveys him to Fairy Land. In Fairy Land Anodos undergoes a long series of strange adventures and spiritual experiences. He is frequently under threat, at first from malevolent trees, and later from his own evil Shadow. At one point he discovers Pygmalion’s cave and sees the form of a beautiful woman enclosed in transparent alabaster. He falls instantly in love with this woman and contrives to free her from the stone, but she flees from him. Later, he encounters the Arthurian knight Sir Percivale, who has just come off the worst of an encounter with the evil Maid of the Alder-Tree. Eventually, after many trials and hazards, Anodos encounters Sir Percivale again and becomes his squire. Together they carry out deeds of chivalry before Anodos eventually returns to the mundane world. Phantastes is now regarded as a classic of the fantasy genre and has been an important influence on later generations of fantasy writers, including such names as C. S. Lewis. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes - George MacDonald - This classic tale by master Scottish story teller George Macdonald Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel first published in London in 1858.The story is about the main character character Anodos, a young man who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there searches for his ideal of female beauty, Anodos has many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals.George MacDonald was the inspiration for authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence."
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Reprint of 1905 Edition. "Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women" is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. The story centers 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."
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-21 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald
Download or read book The Complete Fairy Tales written by George MacDonald and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. It was later reprinted in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume in the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April of 1970. The story centers on the character Anodos ("without a path" or "ascent" in Greek) and draws inspiration from German romanticism, particularly Novalis. A story is about a young man who is dragged into a dream world and there he seeks his ideal of feminine beauty, embodied by the "Marble Lady". Anodos experiences many adventures and temptations while in the other world until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. The story begins the day after Anodos' twenty-first birthday. He discovers an old fairy (whom he learns to be his grandmother) at the desk that he opens with a key that he inherited as a birthright from his late father. After the fairy shows her Fairy Land in a vision, Anodos wakes up the next day to discover that her room, built with natural elements, is taking literal form and transforming into a wood. Find out that he has been transported to Fairy Land. Anodos then meets a woman and her daughter in a cabin who warns him about the Fresno and Aliso, who seek to destroy it. She is told that the spirits of these trees can leave their host trees and roam Fairy Land. Then explore the world of fairies, who live in flowers, making them shine. The flowers, they tell him, die if the fairies leave. Then she has a nightmarish encounter with the spirit of the Fresno, escapes, and finds rest in the warmth and love of the spirit of the Haya. After this, find the statue (affectionately called "my marble lady" by Anodes) of Pygmalion. After he sings to him, the statue runs away from him. He chases after the lady and finds a woman he thinks is her. However, this lady is actually the Alder Maiden in disguise. The Ash's spirit joins the Maiden and is close to killing Anodos when he is saved by Sir Percivale (who chopped down the royal ash with an ax). Anodos later meets a woman and her daughter who believe in fairy tales and the magic of Fairy Land, despite the disbelief of the woman's husband. Anodos also finds his shadow, an evil presence that follows and haunts Anodos for the rest of the story. Anodos finds a palace that mysteriously belongs to him, and contains a room with an inscription that reads "Sir Anodos". In the palace, read the story of Cosmo of Prague. Cosmo is a believer in fantasy who sacrifices his life to free his lover's soul from an enchanted mirror (whether the event was a fictional story made by a Fairy Land author or if it was a recording of an event in the world of Anodes. Left ambiguous). Anodos spends a lot of time in the palace, recounting his various adventures and readings. On one of those wanderings, he comes across hallways filled with motionless statues. Hearing the last vestiges of the song from the hallways and considering the newly frozen statues in immobility as he approaches, Anodos moves further and further into the hallways. He dreams of the marble lady, that only she has an empty pedestal among the statues. He later finds this pedestal and, imagining a way to trick the statues into continuing to dance as he enters the room, he finally sings on the pedestal. The marble lady materializes, but Anodos tries to grab her. She runs away and disappears. Anodos follows him, descending into a strange underworld with gnome-like creatures (such as the German Kobolds) taunting him.
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Download or read book Phantastes A Faerie Romance for Men and Women written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858.
Download or read book Phantastes written by George Macdonald and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book Phantastes A Faerie Romance for Men and Women written by George MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic fantasy that influenced C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, considered one of George MacDonald s most important works, is the story of the young man, Anodos, and his adventures in fairyland which ultimately reveal the human condition. I write, not for children, wrote George MacDonald, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. All-at-once written with an innocent whimsy and soulful yearning, the heart of Anodos journey through fairyland reveals a spiritual quest that requires a surrender of the self. MacDonald s fantasy novel as well as his other works have had major influence on many authors who considered him their mentor:
Download or read book Phantastes written by George MacDonald and published by Johannesen Printing & Publishing. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lilith written by George MacDonald and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What If Adam and Eve Were Still Alive? “...there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.” - George MacDonald, Lilith Lilith by minister George MacDonald is a fantasy novel centered around a different reality where Adam and Eve are still part of the world. Lilith, Adam’s first wife and unworthy mother, also dwells in this imaginary kingdom. Following a raven, Mr. Vane enters this twisted reality and tries to set things right ignoring Adam’s advice: sleeping along with the dreamers before actually helping them.
