#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 4m
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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.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length89 hrs 4 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 10, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Wood Beyond the World
2The Wood Beyond the World
3CHAPTER I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER
4CHAPTER XI: WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE MISTRESS
5CHAPTER XVIII: THE MAID GIVES WALTER TRYST
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6CHAPTER XXVI: THEY COME TO THE FOLK OF THE BEARS
7The King of Elfland's Daughter
8The King of Elfland's Daughter
9Preface
10CHAPTER IThe Plan of the Parliament of Erl
11CHAPTER IIAlveric Comes in Sight of the Elfin Mountains
12CHAPTER IIIThe Magical Sword Meets Some of the Swords of Elfland
13CHAPTER IVAlveric Comes Back to Earth After Many Years
14CHAPTER VThe Wisdom of the Parliament of Erl
15CHAPTER VIThe Rune of the Elf King
16CHAPTER VIIThe Coming of the Troll
17CHAPTER VIIIThe Arrival of the Rune
18CHAPTER IXLirazel Blows Away
19CHAPTER XThe Ebbing of Elfland
20CHAPTER XIThe Deep of the Woods
21CHAPTER XIIThe Unenchanted Plain
22CHAPTER XIIIThe Reticence of the Leather-Worker
23CHAPTER XIVThe Quest for the Elfin Mountains
24CHAPTER XVThe Retreat of the Elf King
25CHAPTER XVIOrion Hunts the Stag
26CHAPTER XVIIThe Unicorn Comes in the Starlight
27CHAPTER XVIIIThe Grey Tent in the Evening
28CHAPTER XIXTwelve Old Men Without Magic
29CHAPTER XXA Historical Fact
30CHAPTER XXIOn the Verge of Earth
31CHAPTER XXIIOrion Appoints a Whip
32CHAPTER XXIIILurulu Watches the Restlessness of Earth
33CHAPTER XXIVLurulu Speaks of Earth and the Ways of Men
34CHAPTER XXVLirazel Remembers the Fields We Know
35CHAPTER XXVIThe Horn of Alveric
36CHAPTER XXVIIThe Return of Lurulu
37CHAPTER XXVIIIA Chapter on Unicorn-Hunting
38CHAPTER XXIXThe Luring of the People of the Marshes
39CHAPTER XXXThe Coming of Too Much Magic
40CHAPTER XXXIThe Cursing of Elfin Things
41CHAPTER XXXIILirazel Yearns for Earth
42CHAPTER XXXIIIThe Shining Line
43CHAPTER XXXIVThe Last Great Rune
44Lilith
45CHAPTER I. THE LIBRARY
46CHAPTER II. THE MIRROR
47CHAPTER III. THE RAVEN
48CHAPTER IV. SOMEWHERE OR NOWHERE?
49CHAPTER V. THE OLD CHURCH
50CHAPTER VI. THE SEXTON'S COTTAGE
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