Description: The Enchanted World Time Life Series Lot Of 8 Hardcover Vintage Fantasy Books 1) Magical Beasts The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1986 2nd Print Time Life2) Water Spirits The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1985 1st Print Time Life 3) Dragons The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1985 3rd Print Time Life4) Giants And Ogres The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1986 2nd Print Time Life5) Ghosts The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1984 1st Print Time Life6) Spells & Bindings The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1985 1st Print Time Life7) Fairies And Elves The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1985 3rd Print Time Life8) Wizards And Witches The Enchanted World Series HC Book 1985 3rd Print Time Life Very Good Used Condition. See Provided Pictures. The Enchanted World was a series of twenty-one books (OCLC 11854843) published in the time period 1984-1987. Each book focused on different aspects of mythology, fairy tales or folklore, and all were released by Time Life Books.[1] Their overall editor was Ellen Phillips and their primary consultant was Tristram Potter Coffin, a Guggenheim Fellowship Award-winning University of Pennsylvania Professor Emeritus of English. OverviewThe volumes in the series were known for their art and the extensive research used by their respective authors retold stories, and were executed as gold imprinted, cloth bound hardcover books, with a glued-on cover illustration. When a series subscription was taken out, a set of gypsy fortune telling cards was received as a bonus gift, becoming a collectible in its own right in recent years.[2] The books often overlap; for example, while King Arthur and his knights only have one book completely devoted to them, Fall of Camelot, they often appear in other books. Half of Legends of Valor is about them, and they appear in Wizards and Witches, Fairies and Elves, Dwarfs, Spells and Bindings and Giants and Ogres. A unique part of the series was that its books were written as stories, taking place from an "in-universe" perspective, presenting its subjects as real people, places, and things. Related to such things having once been real, a common thread through several of them was its documentation of the alleged decline of magical things from "when the world was young" to the modern day. The subjects - dragons, dwarfs, giants - are presented as being potent and strong at the dawn of time, but magical creatures grow weaker and eventually disappear as humans spread and demystify the world, though there is always the promise that the magic will return once again. Christendom is often related to the decline. Though The Enchanted World describes it as humankind's greatest shield against those magics and beings of magic that would prove hostile to it, it proved detrimental even to good magic as people ceased to believe in the old gods in favor of Christ. According to the series, this was because Christianity was centered around a god of reason and that it promised a clearly defined universe of order and stability, a universe where there could be only one god. Magic could hardly thrive under such circumstances. It continued to exist either in opposition to Christianity or, more often, in connection to in-between places and in-between things. The series states that magic had always had a strong connection to things that were neither one thing nor another because as neither one thing nor another, such things could escape definition and be more than what they appeared. The original, first-printing American source publications have received two ISBNs (the second one usually eight numbers higher), but the reason for this is unclear.[3] The popularity of the Enchanted World series, resulting in multiple reprint runs for most of the individual titles, led to the subsequent followup publication of the 1987-91 Mysteries of the Unknown series.[4]
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Book Title: The Enchanted World
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Book Series: The Enchanted World
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
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Edition: Various
Vintage: Yes
Publication Year: 1985
Type: Short Stories
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Literary Movement: Modernism
Era: 1980s
Personalized: No
Author: Mixed Authors
Features: Illustrated, Large Print
Genre: Antiquarian & Collectible, Children & Young Adults, Environment, Nature & Earth, Fairy Tale, Fantasy, Folklore & Mythology, Historical, History, Horror, Imagery, Magic, Mystery, Mysticism, Paranormal, Religious & Spiritual, Science Fiction
Topic: Books, Boys' Interest, Death, Demons, Ghosts, Girls' Interest, Monsters, Occultism, Spooky Stories, Supernatural, Vampires, Werewolves, Witchcraft, Zombies
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
