Phantastes

Introduction by C. S. Lewis

In October 1857, George MacDonald wrote what he described as "a kind of fairy tale, in the hope that it will pay me better than the more evidently serious work." This was Phantastes -- one of MacDonald's most important works; a work which so overwhelmed C. S. Lewis that a few hours after he began reading it he knew he "had crossed a great frontier."

The book is about the narrator's (Anodos) dream-like adventures in fairyland, where he confronts tree-spirits and the shadow, sojourns to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The tale is vintage MacDonald, conveying a profound sadness and a poignant longing for death.

Author: George MacDonald
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 05/18/1981
Pages: 197
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.07w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780802860606

About the Author
MacDonald, George: - (1824-1905) The great nineteenth-century innovator ofmodern fantasy, whose works influenced C. S. Lewis, J. R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. I do not write forchildren, MacDonald once said, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.