Fantasy

Fantasy contains 235 books, including very early fantasy, such as The Odyssey, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Rabelais, Shakespeare, and Gulliver's Travels; and 19th and early 20th century, such as works of Bangs, Baum (Oz), Burroughs (Tarzan), Cabell, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle (Lost World etc.), Haggard (King Solomon's Mines etc.), Kipling, Le Fanu, MacDonald, Morris, Nesbit, Stockton, and Jules Verne, plus A Connecticut Yankee and The Secret Garden. It even has the contemporary fantasy satire The Lizard of Oz by Seltzer.

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Table of Contents

Very Early Fantasy

Homer (8th or 7th century BC)

• The Odyssey, translated by Butcher and Lang
• The Odyssey, translated by Butler
• The Odyssey, translated by Pope

Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

• The Metamorphoses, books 1 to 7, translated by Hentry Riley

Richard Burton, Translator

Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (AKA, The Arabian Nights, the complete collection)

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10
• Supplement Volume1
• Supplement Volume 2
• Supplement Volume 3
• Supplement Volume 4
• Supplement Volume 5
• Supplement Volume 6

Andrew Lang, editor

• The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Sir John Mandeville

• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, published between 1357 and 1371

Sebastian Brant

• The Ship of Fools, 1494

Francis Rabelais (1494-1553)

• The Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel
• book 1
• book 2
• book 3
• book 4
• book 5

William Shakespeare

• A Mid-Summer Night's Dream
• The Tempest

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

• Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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19th Century and Early 20th Century Fantasy

John Kendrick Bangs

• The Autobiography of Methuselah
• The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces
• The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life
• Coffee and Repartee
• The Enchanted Typewriter
• Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others
• The House-Boat on the Styx
• The Idiot
• Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
• Olympian Nights
• Pursuit of the House-Boat
• R. Holmes & Co.
• A Rebellious Heroine
• The Water Ghost and Others

L. Frank Baum

• Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz
• The Emerald City of Oz
• The Enchanted Island of Yew
• Glinda of Oz
• A Kidnapped Santa Claus
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
• The Lost Princess of Oz
• The Magic of Oz
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
• The Master Key
• Ozma of Oz
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz
• Rinkitink in Oz
• The Road to Oz
• The Scarecrow of Oz
• The Sea Fairies
• Sky Island
• The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
• Tik-Tok of Oz
• The Tin Woodman of Oz
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Frances Hodgson Burnett

• The Secret Garden

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• At the Earth's Core
• The Beasts of Tarzan
• The Chessmen of Mars
• The Efficiency Expert
• The Gods of Mars
• Jungle Tales of Tarzan
• The Land that Time Forgot
• The Lost Continent
• The Mucker
• The Oakdale Affair
• Out of Time's Abyss
• The People that Time Forgot
• A Princess of Mars
• The Return of Tarzan
• The Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Tarzan of the Apes
• Tarzan the Terrible
• Tarzan the Untamed
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• The Warlord of Mars

James Branch Cabell

• The Certain Hour
• Chivalry
• The Cords of Vanity
• Domnei, a Comedy of Woman-Worship
• The Eagle's Shadow
• Figures of the Earth, a Comedy of Appearances
• Gallantry
• The Jewel Merchants, a Comedy in One Act
• Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice
• The Line of Love
• The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck
• Taboo

Lewis Carroll

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking Glass

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• The Lost World
• The Poison Belt
• Sir Nigel
• Through the Magic Door

H. Rider Haggard

• Allan and the Holy Flower
• Allan Quatermain
• Allan's Wife
• The Ancient Allan
• Ayesha
• Black Heart and White Heart
• The Brethern
• Cetywayo and His White Neighbors
• Child of Storm
• Cleopatra
• Colonel Quartch
• Dawn
• Dr. Therne
• Elissa
• Eric Brighteyes
• Finished
• The Ghost Kings
• Hunter Quatermain's Story
• The Ivory Child
• Jess
• King Solomon's Mines
• Lysbeth
• The Mahatma and the Hare
• Maiwa's Revenge
• Marie
• Montezuma's Daughter
• Moon of Israel
• Morning Star
• Mr. Meeson's Will
• Nada the Lily
• Pearl-Maiden
• People of the Mist
• The Queen of Sheba's Ring
• Red Eve
• She
• She and Allan
• Smith and the Pharoahs and Other Tales
• Stella Fregeliius
• Swallow
• A Tale of Three Lions
• Virgin of the Sun
• The Wanderer's Necklace
• When the World Shook
• The Wizard
• The World's Desire
• The Yellow God

W.H. Hudson

• Green Mansions: a Romance of the Tropical Forest

Rudyard Kipling

• The Jungle Book
• The Second Jungle Book

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

• The Purcell Papers
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3

George MacDonald

Adela Cathcart, 1864

• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• At the Back of the North Wind
• Cross Purposes
• A Dish of Orts
• The Elect Lady
• Far Above Rubies
• The Flight of the Shadow
• Heather and Snow
• Home Again
• The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
• Phantastes
• The Portent and Other Stories, 1864
• The Princess and Curdie
• The Princess and the Goblin
• Rampolli
• Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, 1871
• A Rough Shaking
• Salted with Fire
• Sir Gibbie
• St. George and St. Michael
• There and Back
• Warlock o' Glenwarlock
• Wilfrid Cumbermede

William Morris

• Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair
• A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson
• The Hollow Land
• The House of the Wolfings
• News from Nowhere or an Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from a Utopian Romance
• The Pilgrims of Hope
• The Roots of the Mountains Wherein is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Bugdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms
• The Story of the Glittering Plain or the Land of Living Men
• The Water of the Wondrous Isles
• The Well at the World's End
• The Wood Beyond the World
• The World of Romance

E. Nesbit

• The Enchanted Castle
• Five Children and It
• The Magic City
• The Phoenix and the Carpet
• The Rainbow and the Rose
• The Story of the Amulet
• The Story of the Treasure Seekers
• The Wouldbegoods

Frank Stockton

• The Bee-Man of Orn
• The Great Stone of Sardis
• The Great War Syndicate
• Kate Bonnet, the Romance of a Pirate's Daughter
• The Lady or the Tiger?
• The Magic Egg and Other Stories
• Round-About Rambles in the Lands of Fact and Fancy
• Ting-a-Ling
• The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander

Mark Twain

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Jules Verne

• Five Weeks in a Balloon or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen
• Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: an Underwater Tour of the World
• The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia, Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of the Twentieth Century
• All Around the Moon
• Around the World in Eighty Days
• Dick Sand
• Facing the Flag
• From the Earth to the Moon
• In Search of the Castaways
• In the Year 2889
• A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
• The Master of the World
• Michael Strogoff, or the Courier of the Czar
• The Mysterious Island
• Off on a Comet
• Robur the Conqueror
• Ticket No. 9672
• The Underground City or The Black Indies

Lew Wallace

• The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
• volume 1
• volume 2

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Contemporary

Richard Seltzer

• The Lizard of Oz