The encyclopedia of fantasy

John Clute

Original title: The Encyclopedia of fantasy

earliest edition we have, 1997 St. Martin's Press, 1997 1049 pages

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 Gaard...

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Encyclopedia of Fantasy edition · 1999 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 1296 pages · 9781857238938
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy edition · 1999 · St. Martin's Griffin · 9780312198695
The Encyclopedia of fantasy edition · 1997 · St. Martin's Press · 1049 pages
The encyclopedia of fantasy hardcover · 1997 · Orbit · 1049 pages

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