After three years making a living tutoring, he studied for the ministry and became the pastor of a small Congregational church. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . PHANTASTES by George MacDonald THE AUTHOR George MacDonald (1824-1905) was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and attended Aberdeen University, studying chemistry. The path through enchantment passes by extravagant beauty under very dark skies. And yet, the visitor to their world sheds tears for the affairs of this life, reflected in vivid color in every aspect of that alternative universe. They are quite as real as flowers, equally fragile too-and equally alien to man.
Yes, fairies are real, although not even in Fairyland does everyone believe in them. LibriVox recording of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald.Ī fairly normal man stumbles into Fairyland, where his travels acquaint him with longing, fear, strife, endurance, exaltation, humiliation, and grief, in exaggerated form, before disappointment leads him back to the mundane world.
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