![]() The episodic story gets going when he discovers the marble statue made by Pygmalion, Anodos sings to the statue of a beautiful woman which promptly comes to life and floats away towards the forest, Anodos is compelled to follow and his pursuit of image leads him onto further adventures. ![]() Phantastes has been cited as the first book length fantasy story for adults.When Anodos wakes up in fairy land he is enchanted by the flowers which seem to be home for the fairies, but there is danger in the enchanted land as the fingers of the evil ash and alder trees threaten to destroy him. ![]() This is a Victorian novel which is chock full of repressed sexuality and MacDonald has been careful to remind his readers it is a Romance for Men and Women, although children would come to no harm if they chanced to pick it up. ![]() Anodos is 21 years old when he sees a fairy figure in a desk that he inherited from his late father, she tells him about fairy land and next morning he awakens in a forest and his adventures and his quest for love lead him into the land of the fairies. ![]() “Alas, how easily things go wrongA sigh too much, or a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weeping rainAnd life is never the same again.”A bildungsroman first published in 1858 it is one of the earliest book length prose fairy stories. ![]()
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