![]() ![]() On the other hand, it was standard issued with a dust jacket, contrary to the English, and other-language editions, which were normally issued without one for individual title bookstore sales, whereas series subscribers were issued with one. Truncated, the Dutch-language edition (as "Het Rijk der Fabelen", which literally translates as "The Realm of Fables"), did not see the last eight volumes in translation – most likely because of disappointing sales. International editions ĭespite the universal appeal of the subject matter, the series has not been widely translated into other languages, though French, German, and Dutch-language editions are known to have been near-concurrently released by the local Amsterdam "Time-Life Books BV" branch. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() 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. It continued to exist either in opposition to Christianity or, more often, in connection to in-between places and in-between things. Magic could hardly thrive under such circumstances. 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. 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. 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.Ĭhristendom is often related to the decline. 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. 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.Ī 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. 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. 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. The 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. ![]() 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. Each book focused on different aspects of mythology, fairy tales or folklore, and all were released by Time Life Books. The Enchanted World was a series of twenty-one books ( OCLC 11854843) published in the time period 1984-1987. ![]()
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