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Lilith and Phantastes (Paperback)
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Lilith and Phantastes (Paperback)
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Two volumes in one. A fantasy novel for adults, Lilith is the story
of the aptly named Mr. Vane, his magical house, and the journeys
into another world into which it leads him. Encountering one
mystery after another, he explores the mystery of humanity's fall
from grace--and of their redemption. Instructed into the ways of
seeing the deeper realities of this world--seeing, in a sense, by
the light of the spirit--the reader senses that MacDonald writes
from his own deep experience of radiance, from a bliss so profound
that death's darkness itself is utterly eclipsed in its light. "I
was dead, and right content," the narrator says in the penultimate
chapter of 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. Both Lilith and Phantastes, meant to be read
together, are included in this comprehensive volume.
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