Phantastes: A Faerie Romance, Volumen1

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Daldy, Isbister, & Company, 1874 - 222 páginas

Phantastes : A Faerie Romance by George MacDonald, first published in 1874, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation.

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Página 2 - Mährchen ist wie ein Traumbild ohne Zusammenhang. Ein Ensemble wunderbarer Dinge und Begebenheiten, z. B. eine Musikalische Phantasie, die harmonischen Folgen einer Aeolsharfe, die Natur selbst.
Página 120 - How will you go back?" said the woman. "Nay, that I do not know." "Because I have heard that, for those who enter Fairy Land, there is no way of going back. They must go on, and go through it. How, I do not in the least know." "That is quite the impression on my own mind. Something compels me to go on, as if my only path was onward; but I feel less inclined this morning to continue my adventures.
Página 2 - Gedichte, bloß wohlklingend und voll schöner Worte, aber auch ohne allen Sinn und Zusammenhang - höchstens einzelne Strophen verständlich - wie <lauter) Bruchstücke aus den verschiedenartigsten Dingen.
Página 80 - I did see, appeared to me perfectly lovely; more near the face that had been born with me in my soul, than anything I had seen before in nature or art.
Página 106 - Fight on, my men," Sir Andrew sayes, "A little Ime hurt, but yett not slaine : He but lye downe and bleede a while. And then He rise and fight againe. " Fight on, my men," Sir Andrew sayes, " And never flinche before the foe ; And stand fast by St.

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George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905.

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