Phantastes

✅ First 🥇 published in London in 1️⃣8️⃣5️⃣8️⃣, this adult 🧑 fantasy 😇 novel follows Anodos, a man 👤👨 who searches 🔍️ for his 👤👨⬅️ ideal of female 👤♀️ beauty 💇 in a dream-like world 🗺️. Anodos has many adventures and ➕ faces 😀 many temptations in this fairyland, from tree 🌲 spirit confrontations to a long trek to the palace of the fairy 🧚‍♀️ queen 👑👩, where he 👤👨 eventually meets 👤🤝👤 the Marble Lady 👤👩. MacDonald would later astonish and ➕ influence writers such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and ➕ W. H. Auden, who saw 👀 in this work ⚙️ the successful embodiment of the depth and ➕ meaning of our 👥⬅️ inner, spiritual world 🗺️. The poignancy of Phantastes lies 🤥 in its representation of a spiritual quest, one 1️⃣ in which ideals are compromised, and ➕ the ultimate 🥏 surrender of the self brings both overflowing joy 😂 and ➕ profound sadness 😢.

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