The Project Gutenberg EBook of Phantastes, by George MacDonaldThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: PhantastesA Faerie Romance for Men and WomenAuthor: George MacDonaldRelease Date: July 8, 2008 [EBook #325]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PHANTASTES ***Produced by Mike LoughPHANTASTESA FAERIE ROMANCE FOR MEN AND WOMENBy George MacdonaldA new Edition, with thirty-three new Illustrations by Arthur Hughes;edited by Greville MacDonald"In good sooth, my masters, this is no door.Yet is it a little window, that looketh upon a great world."LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSTHE MEETING OF SIR GALAHAD AND SIX PERCIVALESUDDENLY THERE STOOD ON THE THRESHOLD A TINY WOMAN-FORMTHE BRANCHES AND LEAVES ON THE CURTAINS OF MY BED WERE IN MOTIONI SAW A COUNTRY MAIDEN COMING TOWARDS METAILPIECE TO CHAPTER IIIHEADPIECE TO CHAPTER IVTWO LARGE SOFT ARMS WERE THROWN AROUND ME FROM BEHINDI GAZED AFTER HER IN A KIND OF DESPAIRI FOUND MYSELF IN A LITTLE CAVETHE ASH SHUDDERED AND GROANEDTAILPIECE TO CHAPTER VII COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THAT THERE WAS A FAIRY LAND
I DID NOT BELIEVE IN FAIRY LANDA RUNNER WITH GHOSTLY FEETTHE MAIDEN CAME ALONG, SINGING AND DANCING,HAPPY AS A CHILDTHE GOBLINS PERFORMED THE MOST ANTIC HOMAGETHE FAIRY PALACE IN THE MOONLIGHTTOO DAZZLING FOR EARTHLY EYESIN THE WOODS AND ALONG THE RIVER BANKS DO THE MAIDENS GO LOOKINGFOR CHILDRENSHE LAY WITH CLOSED EYES, WHENCE TWO TEARS WERE FAST WELLINGHEADPIECE TO CHAPTER XIVI SPRANG TO HER, AND LAID MY HAND ON THE HARPA WHITE FIGURE GLEAMED PAST ME, WRINGING HER HANDSTHEY ALL RUSHED UPON ME, AND HELD ME TIGHTA WINTRY SEA, BARE, AND WASTE, AND GRAYSHOW ME THE CHILD THOU CALLEST MINETHE TIME PASSED AWAY IN WORK AND SONGHEADPIECE TO CHAPTER XXIWE REACHED THE PALACE OF THE KINGI SAW, LEANING AGAINST THE TREE, A BEAUTIFUL WOMANFASTENED TO THE SADDLE, WAS THE BODY OF A GREAT DRAGONI WAS DEAD, AND RIGHT CONTENTA VALLEY LAY BENEATH MEPREFACEFor offering this new edition of my father's Phantastes, my reasonsare three. The first is to rescue the work from an edition illustratedwithout the author's sanction, and so unsuitably that all lovers of thebook must have experienced some real grief in turning its pages. Withthe copyright I secured also the whole of that edition and turned itinto pulp.My second reason is to pay a small tribute to my father by way ofpersonal gratitude for this, his first prose work, which was publishednearly fifty years ago. Though unknown to many lovers of his greaterwritings, none of these has exceeded it in imaginative insight and powerof expression. To me it rings with the dominant chord of his life'spurpose and work.My third reason is that wider knowledge and love of the book shouldbe made possible. To this end I have been most happy in the help of myfather's old friend, who has illustrated the book. I know of no otherliving artist who is capable of portraying the spirit of Phantastes;and every reader of this edition will, I believe, feel that theillustrations are a part of the romance, and will gain through themsome perception of the brotherhood between George MacDonald and ArthurHughes.GREVILLE MACDONALD.September 1905.PHANTASTES A FAERIE ROMANCE
"Phantastes from 'their fount all shapes deriving,In new habiliments can quickly dight."FLETCHER'S Purple Island"Es lassen sich Erzahlungen ohne Zusammenhang, jedoch mitAssociation, wie Traume dengkeennohgneedizhusamdimenhang;jedoeh mit und voll schoner Worte sind, aber auch ohne allenSinn und Zusammenhang, hochstens einzelne Strophenverstandlich, wie Bruchstucke aus den verjschledenartigstenDingen, Diese svahre Poesie kann Wlrkung, wie Musik haben.Darum ist die Natur so rein poetisch wle die Stube einesZauberers, eines Physikers, eine Kinderstube elne PolterundVorrathskammer"Ein Mahrchen ist wie ein Traumbild ohne Zusammenhang. EinEnsemble wunderbarer Dinge und Begebenheiten, z. B. einedMusNkalische Pbantasie, die harmonischen Folgen einerAeolsharfe, die Natur slebst...."In einem echten Mahrchen muss ailes wunderbar,geheimnissvoll undzusammenhangendsein; alles belebt, jederauf eineandereArt Die ganze Natur muss wunderlich mit derganzen Geisterwelt gemiseht sein; hier tritt die Zeit derAnarehie, der Gesetzlosigkeit Frelheit, der Naturstand derNatur, die Zeit von der Welt ein entgegengesetztes und ebendaruel'ndiehr Weld der Wahrheit durehaus Chaos dervollendeten Sehopfung ahnlich ist."--NOVALIS.CHAPTER I"A spirit . . .. . . . . .The undulating and silent well,And rippling rivulet, and evening gloom,Now deepening the dark shades, for speech assuming,Held commune with him; as if he and itWere all that was."SHELLEY'S Alastor.I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompaniesthe return of consciousness. As I lay and looked through the easternwindow of my room, a faint streak of peach-colour, dividing a cloud thatjust rose above the low swell of the horizon, announced the approach ofthe sun. As my thoughts, which a deep and apparently dreamless sleep haddissolved, began again to assume crystalline forms, the strange eventsof the foregoing night presented themselves anew to my wonderingconsciousness. The day before had been my one-and-twentieth birthday.Among other ceremonies investing me with my legal rights, the keys of anold secretary, in which my father had kept his private papers, had beendelivered up to me. As soon as I was left alone, I ordered lights in thechamber where the secretary stood, the first lights that had been there
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