The path through enchantment passes by extravagant beauty under very dark skies. And yet, the visitor to their world sheds tears for the affairs of this life, reflected in vivid color in every aspect of that alternative universe. They are quite as real as flowers, equally fragile too-and equally alien to man. Yes, fairies are real, although not even in Fairyland does everyone believe in them. LibriVox recording of Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women by George MacDonald.Ī fairly normal man stumbles into Fairyland, where his travels acquaint him with longing, fear, strife, endurance, exaltation, humiliation, and grief, in exaggerated form, before disappointment leads him back to the mundane world.
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