Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy by Douglas A. Anderson
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Overview: Many of today’s top names in fantasy acknowledge J.R.R. Tolkien as the author whose work inspired them to create their own epics. But which writers influenced Tolkien himself? In a collection destined to become a classic in its own right, internationally recognized Tolkien expert Douglas A. Anderson, editor of The Annotated Hobbit, has gathered the fiction of the many gifted authors who sparked Tolkien’s imagination. Authors range from the iconic (L. Frank Baum, Lord Dunsany, William Hope Hodgson) to the virtually unknown (Clemence Housman) and includes a never-before-published gem by David Lindsay, author of A Voyage to Arcturus, a novel that Tolkien praised highly both as a thriller and as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality. Arthur Machen aficionados will especially appreciate “The Coming of the Terror” (an abridgement of his short novel The Terror), hitherto unreprinted since its initial magazine appearance in 1917.
In stories packed with magical journeys, conflicted heroes, and terrible beasts, this extraordinary volume is one that no fan of fantasy or Tolkien should be without. These tales just might inspire a new generation of creative writers
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Anderson, Douglas A – Tales Before Tolkien (2003, Random House Publishing Group).zip – 2.4 MB
