Fantasy Worlds Unleashed: A Collection of 84 Enthralling Novels
Eighty-Four Classic Tales of Enchanted Kingdoms, Lost Worlds, Gothic Mysteries, and Heroic QuestsBy David Garnett, Erckmann-Chatrian, Claude Farrère, W. G. Worfel, Robert E. Howard, Louisa Morgan, Jonathan Swift, Robert Paltock, Alvarado M. Fuller, Frank Aubrey, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles L. Sir Young, Robert W. Chambers, H. Rider Haggard, James Cowan, Joan Conquest, W. A. Darlington, E. S. Dorrance, Pierre Benoît, George Chetwynd Griffith, Hope Mirrlees, Edith Allonby, Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inez Haynes Gillmore, James Stephens, Karle Wilson Baker, Anna Goldmark Gross, Lilian Bell, Kendell Foster Crossen, Manly Wade Wellman, James Blish, Kenneth Grahame, James Branch Cabell
Length458h 58m
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Fantasy Worlds Unleashed: A Collection of 84 Enthralling Novels surveys the extraordinary elasticity of fantasy across satire, romance, Gothic terror, lost-world adventure, fairy tale, dream vision, and early science-fictional speculation. Its capacious selection traces imagined realms from enchanted islands and subterranean kingdoms to imperial frontiers, uncanny doubles, and civilizations beyond ordinary history. Particularly compelling are the volume's recurrent encounters with other worlds, where wonder becomes a vehicle for social criticism, psychological disquiet, and moral experiment. The contributors collectively represent more than two centuries of British, American, French, German, and Irish imaginative writing. Canonical fabulists appear beside popular adventure writers, Gothic innovators, modernist dreamers, and major figures in pulp and speculative fiction. Their converging traditions illuminate fantasy's development from eighteenth-century political allegory and Romantic folklore through Victorian imperial romance and fin-de-siècle decadence to twentieth-century weird fiction and genre modernity. The anthology therefore foregrounds fantasy not as a marginal escape from reality, but as a multilingual, transnational mode for testing reality's assumptions. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking both pleasure and perspective: an expansive gateway to varied narrative forms, historical moments, and imaginative vocabularies. Read consecutively or selectively, its eighty-four novels invite comparison across eras and traditions, fostering a rich dialogue between adventure, satire, terror, and enchantment.
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GenreFantasy
Length458 hrs 58 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
2Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World
3WITH THIRTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS AND A MAP
4CHAPTER II.
5CHAPTER V.
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6CHAPTER VIII.
7CHAPTER III.
8CHAPTER VI.
9Footnote
10Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
11Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
12MAGEPA THE BUCK
13THE BLUE CURTAINS
14LITTLE FLOWER (pt. 1)
15LITTLE FLOWER (pt. 2)
16ONLY A DREAM
17CHAPTER IV
18CHAPTER VII
19Heart of the World
20Heart of the World
21HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 1)
22HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 2)
23HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 3)
24HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 4)
25HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 5)
26HEART OF THE WORLD (pt. 6)
27Ayesha, the Return of She
28AYESHA
29CHAPTER III
30CHAPTER V
31CHAPTER VII
32CHAPTER IX
33CHAPTER XI
34CHAPTER XIII
35CHAPTER XV
36CHAPTER XVII
37CHAPTER XX
38CHAPTER XXII
39CHAPTER XXIV
40Tarzan and the Golden Lion
41CHAPTER I THE GOLDEN LION
42CHAPTER IV WHAT THE FOOTPRINTS TOLD
43CHAPTER VII “YOU MUST SACRIFICE HIM”
44CHAPTER IX THE SHAFT OF DEATH
45CHAPTER XI STRANGE INCENSE BURNS
46CHAPTER XIII A STRANGE, FLAT TOWER
47CHAPTER XV THE MAP OF BLOOD
48CHAPTER XVII THE TORTURE OF FIRE
49CHAPTER XIX A BARBED SHAFT KILLS
50CHAPTER XXI AN ESCAPE AND A CAPTURE
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