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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

by George MacDonald

Science fiction · Fantasy · Romance

Open Library OL15450W

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women turns on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women 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".

About the author

George MacDonald (1824–1905) is represented here by 65 public-domain titles, including A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare, and A Double Story. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for George MacDonald.

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