![]() ![]() Lewis wrote, concerning his first reading of Phantastes at age sixteen, "That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized the rest of me not unnaturally, took longer. The edition published in 1905 was illustrated by Pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes.Ĭ. Anodos lives through many adventures and temptations while in the other world, until he is finally ready to give up his ideals. The story 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". ![]() The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism, particularly Novalis. It was later reprinted in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fourteenth volume of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in April 1970. Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. ![]()
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