Phantastes

''Phantastes: A Faerie Romance'' was the first work of fiction by George MacDonald. ''Phantastes'' exerted a strong influence on fantasy authors of later generations; for example, C. S. Lewis claimed that his imagination had been baptized by reading it. The story concerns a young man, Anodos, who is pulled into a dreamlike world and there hunts for his ideal of female beauty, embodied by the Marbl...