Phantastes: George MacDonald's classic fantasy novel

by Mark Worthing

Mark Worthing is an author, and pastor of Immanuel Lutheran Church, North Adelaide, Australia. He is former head of the Faculty of Humanities and Creative Writing at Tabor Adelaide. His most recent works include Graeme Clark. The Man Who Invented the Bionic Ear (Allen&Unwin, 2015), and Narnia, Middle-Earth and the Kingdom of A History of Fantasy Literature and the Christian Tradition (Stone Table Books, 2016).

176 pages, Paperback

Published December 29, 2016

About the author

Mark Worthing is a historian of science and a senior researcher with Lutheran Education Australia, Adelaide.

Reviews

[Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worthing has managed to combine modern language and story telling with what is often held to be the first full-length fantasy novel in the English language to create something that is both a tribute to the original writer and texts of its time, as well an eminently readable and enjoyable book for a modern audience. I love the fact that this book retains the flavour of the original text whilst also tuning up some of the pacing issues that existed in the original version. For all those folks who desire to read this text that Tolkien and Lewis (among others of their contemporaries) raved about but struggle with the older style of language and harder to read texts, this book is gold.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

My first MacDonald. REad it to my wife Carol in the evenings. Unique book