Phantastes (150th Anniversary Edition) (Paperback, Anniversary edition)

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of its publication in 1858, Paternoster has produced the first ever annotated edition of Phantastes, George MacDonald (1824-1905). A great nineteenth-century innovator of modern fantasy, his works influenced C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. I do not write for children, MacDonald once said, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five. . Described by MacDonald as 'a faerie romance for men and women', Phantastes tells the tale of Anodos, a young man who one morning wakes up to find himself in the dreamlike landscape of faerie. Through the landscape he must travel, facing malevolent tree-spirits and fighting giants, dogged all the time by his shadow-self and eventually reaching a climactic act of valour, self-sacrifice and redemption. On his journey he is inspired by a mysterious white lady, befriended by knights and given strength by the 'old woman with the young eyes'. Phantastes is a tale about selfishness and self-sacrifice, pride and humility, about friendship and fear. Above all it is a novel about death - good death - death which is really the start of life.

General

Imprint:	Paternoster Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	November 2008
Authors:	George MacDonald
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	272
Edition:	Anniversary edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84227-615-0
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Fantasy
LSN:	1-84227-615-8
Barcode:	9781842276150

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