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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of its publication in 1858 Paternoster hasproduced the first ever annotated edition of Phantastes. Described by MacDonaldas a faerie romance for men and women Phantastes tells the tale of Anodos ayoung man who one morning wakes up to find himself in the dreamlike landscapeof faerie. Through the landscape he must travel facing malevolent treespiritsand fighting giants dogged all the time by his shadowself and eventuallyreaching a climactic act of valour selfsacrifice and redemption. On hisjourney he is inspired by a mysterious white lady befriended by knights andgiven strength by the old woman with the young eyes. Phantastes is a taleabout selfishness and selfsacrifice pride and humility about friendship andfear. Above all it is a novel about death good death death which is really thestart of life. «
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