![]() ![]() There, he discovers his female ideal, the darkness within his soul (as manifested in his shadow), and that the only way out of Fairy Land is through. The next morning, he wakes up to find his childhood bedroom transformed into Fairy Land. ![]() She tells him that he will enter Fairy Land tomorrow. After the death of his father, Anodos discovers a secret compartment in his desk-but he’s confronted by a fairy woman before he can read them. ![]() Phantastes is the story of Anodos, a young English gentleman. With Phantastes in the public domain, I thought it was as good a place as any to start. Lewis considered his reading of Phantastes at 16 as the “night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized” (100). (Both, incidentally, are part of the now defunct Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, which looks like a good resource for my casual investigation into pre-Tolkien fantasy.) C. ![]() I’ve featured Lord Dunsany’s 1924 novel, The King of Elfland’s Daughter, on The Literary Horizon before, but Phantastes is a much earlier work that was published in 1858. Tolkien, and I want to learn more about fantasy as it stood prior to the game-changing The Lord of the Rings. But modern fantasy as we know it was shaped by J. As you well know, fantasy is my genre-I’m pretty sure I bleed The Legend of Zelda. ![]()
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