The Encyclopedia of fantasy
About this book
This huge volume is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the fantasy field, offering an exciting new analysis of this highly diverse and hugely popular sphere of literature, from precursors such as Shakespeare and Dante, through Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald and L. Frank Baum to J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and their modern successors, like Ursula K. Le Guin, Peter S. Beagle, Stephen R. Donaldson and Jostein Gaarder.
With over 4,000 entries and over 1 million words, it covers every aspect of fantasy - in literature, films, television, opera, art and comics.
Subjects
EncyclopediasFantasy literatureFantasy filmsFantasy in artFantasy fictionFantasyFantasy in literatureScience-fictionLittérature fantastiqueFantasy fiction, history and criticismFantasy films, history and criticism