{"product_id":"phantastes-a-faerie-romance-for-men-and-women-hardcover-2","title":"Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge MacDonald\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhantastes\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the foundational works of modern fantasy, a strange, symbolic, and deeply imaginative Victorian romance that helped shape the literature of Faerie.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in 1858, George MacDonald's dreamlike novel follows Anodos, a young man who enters Fairy Land and moves through forests, palaces, shadows, visions, temptations, and encounters with elusive beauty. Subtitled \u003cem\u003eA Faerie Romance for Men and Women\u003c\/em\u003e, the book stands at the meeting point of myth, spiritual quest, German Romanticism, fairy tale, and early fantasy fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacDonald's influence on later fantasy is difficult to overstate. His imaginative theology, symbolic landscapes, and treatment of Faerie as a realm of moral and inward transformation helped prepare the ground for writers such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, G. K. Chesterton, and many later authors of literary fantasy. Yet \u003cem\u003ePhantastes\u003c\/em\u003e remains very much its own book: wandering, visionary, unsettling, beautiful, and deliberately resistant to simple allegorical explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of classic fantasy, Victorian literature, Christian fantasy, symbolic fiction, and the origins of modern imaginative literature, \u003cem\u003ePhantastes\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential work: not merely an historical curiosity, but a living dream-book from one of the great nineteenth-century makers of enchanted worlds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 03, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43426613854275,"sku":"9781515435877","price":42.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/store7994.com\/products\/phantastes-a-faerie-romance-for-men-and-women-hardcover-2","provider":"STORE 7994","version":"1.0","type":"link"}