20 Classic Fantasy Works Vol. 1: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Man Who Was Thursday...

by George MacDonald, Charles Kingsley, Lewis Carroll

This compilation contains the following classic fantasy works:

Phantastes - George MacDonald
The Water-Babies - Charles Kingsley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) - Lewis Carroll
Lilith - George MacDonald
The Well at the World's End - William Morris
The Sundering Flood - William Morris
The Lost Continent - Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
The Wallet of Kai Lung - Ernest Bramah Smith
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz - Lyman Frank Baum
The Enchanted Castle - Edith Nesbit
The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
The Magic City - Edith Nesbit
Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) - J.M. Barrie
The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson
A Voyage to Arcturus - David Lindsay
Kai Lung's Golden Hours - Ernest Bramah Smith

Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Classics, Ebooks, Anthologies, Amazon

5086 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 7, 2020

About the author

George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian Congregational minister. He became a pioneering figure in the field of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow-writer Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote several works of Christian theology, including several collections of sermons.

Reviews

[Kim]

Read and reviewed:
Dickens, Charles: “A Christmas Carol” - 3 stars
Mikhail Bulgakov: “The Master and Margarita” - 3 stars
Anonymous: “The Epic of Gilgamesh” - 2 stars
Barrie, J. M.: “Peter Pan” - 4 stars
Baum, L. Frank: “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 4 stars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: “A Princess of Mars” - 3 stars
Burroughs, Edgar Rice: "Tarzan of the Apes" - 3 stars
Carroll, Lewis: “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” - 1 star
Chesterton, G. K.: “The Man Who Was Thursday” - 3 stars
Dunsany, Lord: “The King of Elfland’s Daughter” - 2 stars
Howard , Robert E. “The hour of the dragon” - 4 stars
Howard, Robert E. "Solomon Kane" - 2 stars

Average rating: 3 stars

Didn't finish:
Anonymous: “Beowulf”: this translation in verse was too hard to read for me. I may try another translation or even a version in prose later.
Carroll, Lewis: “Through the Looking Glass”. Nope. Hated Alice's adventures in Wonderland, no way I'm starting this.
Eddison, E. R.: “The Worm Ouroboros”: Got very very bored. Lots of events but no drive to story or characters.

Currently reading:
MacDonald, George: “Phantastes”

Still to read:
MacDonald, George: “The Princess and the Goblin”
Malory, Thomas: “King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table”
Ruskin, John: “The King of the Golden River”
Twain, Mark: “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”

[Jenny Persinger]

Such a great book!

This is a great good book, I love this book, because it is amazing! I would recommend this book to any book worms!!!!

[David J. Brumbaugh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Considering the works of the most famous this is going to be real good....

[Tristan]

I have separately read and reviewed:

* “Peter Pan” by J M Barrie
* “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L Frank Baum
* “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs
* “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll
* “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
* “The King of Elfland’s Daughter” by Lord Dunsany
* “The Princess and the Goblin” by George MacDonald

[Curt Dukes · Rating 3 out of 5]

definitely mixed but interesting reading