Fantasy Books

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland-the classic tale of "literary nonsense"-was enjoyed by everyone from the stodgy Queen Victoria to the salacious Oscar Wilde. Images have remained in the zeitgeist since its creatio..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Anonymous

It's been called The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, One Thousand and One Nights, etc., but the framework is generally the same: a Persian king discovers his wife is cheating, so, having determined th..

Grimms' Fairy Tales

The Grimm Brothers

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, or the Brothers Grimm, were born in Hanau Germany in the late 1700s. They were well known scholars who made popular a multitude of European folk and fairy tales that had until..

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

To this day, the classic Gulliver's Travels places Jonathan Swift as the master of both parody and satire. Fifteen years in the making, his book was published anonymously due to fear of prosecution. A..

The Invisible Man

H. G. Wells

Certainly a classic book but I have always felt like, in the end, the central character was just too one-dimensional. The absence of any moral reflection has always seemed like an opportunity missed. ..

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

Loved Robin Hood as a child,almost as much as my beloved Batman and Robin.When I was grown and finally got to read this story,It was exactly as I pictured The Merry Men when I was a child.I just love ..

Through the Looking Glass

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, which takes place 6 months after Alice's trip down the rabbit hole. This time it's a ..

The Well at the World's End

William Morris

The Well at the World's End is a fantasy novel by William Morris, a British artist, poet, and author. It first appeared in 1896 and has been reprinted many times, often along with Morris's other book,..