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Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women is a fantasy novel by Scottish writer George MacDonald published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos ("pathless" in Greek ) and takes its inspiration from German Romanticism , particularly Novalis .
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George MacDonald was born on 10 December 1824 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to George MacDonald, manufacturer, and Helen McCay or MacKay.His father, a farmer, was descended from the Clan MacDonald of Glen Coe and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. American speculative fiction writer (born 1961) For other people with the same name, see John Wright (disambiguation). John C. Wright Wright in 2006 Born John Charles Justin Wright (1961-10-22) October 22, 1961 (age 63) Chula Vista, California, U.S. Occupation Writer Education St. John's ...
Among such books are A Judgement in Stone, The Face of Trespass, Live Flesh, Talking to Strange Men, The Killing Doll, Going Wrong and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. For the last novel published in her lifetime, The Girl Next Door , she returned to the Loughton of her childhood, with an implied comparison of the moral climate of wartime England and ...
In Britain in the aftermath of World War I, a notably large number of fantasy books aimed at an adult readership were published, including Living Alone (1919) by Stella Benson, [62] A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) by David Lindsay, [63] Lady into Fox (1922) by David Garnett, [62] Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) by Hope Mirrlees, [62] [64] and Lolly Willowes ...
Phantasos on the western corner of the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts by Robert Henze. In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Phantasos (Ancient Greek: Φάντασος, 'apparition' 'fantasy' from Ancient Greek: φαντασία, phantasíā, 'appearance' 'imagination') [1] is one of the thousand sons of Somnus (Sleep, the Roman counterpart of Hypnos).