#Romantasy Classics Collection
Enchanted Quests, Lost Civilizations, and Mythic Love Across the Foundations of Romantic FantasyBy William Morris, Lord Dunsany, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Robert E. Howard, Abraham Merritt, William Hope Hodgson, Poul Anderson, William R. Bradshaw
Length89h 2m
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#Romantasy Classics Collection maps a rich prehistory of contemporary romantasy across Victorian romance, Gothic wonder, mythic quest, lost-world adventure, heroic fantasy, and speculative fiction. Its selections reveal how enchantment and desire, peril and idealized love, operate not as decorative additions but as engines of narrative transformation. From dreamlike otherworlds and haunted seas to ancient kingdoms, magical women, and civilizations beyond the familiar map, the volume gathers works whose imaginative amplitude helped establish enduring conventions of fantastic romance. The collection brings together writers associated with the nineteenth-century romance revival, Celtic and medievalist fantasy, imperial adventure, weird fiction, pulp heroics, and mid-century science-fictional extrapolation. William Morris, George MacDonald, Lord Dunsany, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton supply important foundations for literary fantasy, while H. Rider Haggard, Abraham Merritt, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, Poul Anderson, and William R. Bradshaw extend these traditions into darker, more adventurous, and more cosmological registers. Their varied idioms illuminate the historical evolution of fantasy's intertwined ideals of quest, mystery, eros, and the marvelous. Recommended for students, scholars, and devoted readers of fantasy romance, this anthology offers an unusually broad encounter with the genre's formative vocabularies. Reading these texts together encourages fruitful comparison across periods and styles, revealing both the persistence and transformation of romantasy's central imaginative concerns.
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GenreFantasy
Length89 hrs 2 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Wood Beyond the World
2CHAPTER I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER
3CHAPTER XI: WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE MISTRESS
4CHAPTER XVIII: THE MAID GIVES WALTER TRYST
5CHAPTER XXVI: THEY COME TO THE FOLK OF THE BEARS
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6The King of Elfland's Daughter
7Preface
8CHAPTER I The Plan of the Parliament of Erl
9CHAPTER II Alveric Comes in Sight of the Elfin Mountains
10CHAPTER III The Magical Sword Meets Some of the Swords of Elfland
11CHAPTER IV Alveric Comes Back to Earth After Many Years
12CHAPTER V The Wisdom of the Parliament of Erl
13CHAPTER VI The Rune of the Elf King
14CHAPTER VII The Coming of the Troll
15CHAPTER VIII The Arrival of the Rune
16CHAPTER IX Lirazel Blows Away
17CHAPTER X The Ebbing of Elfland
18CHAPTER XI The Deep of the Woods
19CHAPTER XII The Unenchanted Plain
20CHAPTER XIII The Reticence of the Leather-Worker
21CHAPTER XIV The Quest for the Elfin Mountains
22CHAPTER XV The Retreat of the Elf King
23CHAPTER XVI Orion Hunts the Stag
24CHAPTER XVII The Unicorn Comes in the Starlight
25CHAPTER XVIII The Grey Tent in the Evening
26CHAPTER XIX Twelve Old Men Without Magic
27CHAPTER XX A Historical Fact
28CHAPTER XXI On the Verge of Earth
29CHAPTER XXII Orion Appoints a Whip
30CHAPTER XXIII Lurulu Watches the Restlessness of Earth
31CHAPTER XXIV Lurulu Speaks of Earth and the Ways of Men
32CHAPTER XXV Lirazel Remembers the Fields We Know
33CHAPTER XXVI The Horn of Alveric
34CHAPTER XXVII The Return of Lurulu
35CHAPTER XXVIII A Chapter on Unicorn-Hunting
36CHAPTER XXIX The Luring of the People of the Marshes
37CHAPTER XXX The Coming of Too Much Magic
38CHAPTER XXXI The Cursing of Elfin Things
39CHAPTER XXXII Lirazel Yearns for Earth
40CHAPTER XXXIII The Shining Line
41CHAPTER XXXIV The Last Great Rune
42Lilith
43CHAPTER I. THE LIBRARY
44CHAPTER II. THE MIRROR
45CHAPTER III. THE RAVEN
46CHAPTER IV. SOMEWHERE OR NOWHERE?
47CHAPTER V. THE OLD CHURCH
48CHAPTER VI. THE SEXTON'S COTTAGE
49CHAPTER VII. THE CEMETERY
50CHAPTER VIII. MY FATHER'S MANUSCRIPT
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