Modern man lives boring. Home, work, family, news on TV.It happens every day, for many years. But many people want something else: a brighter life, adventures, bubbling adrenaline in the blood. Perhaps, it is this that can explain the popularity of the genre of fantasy.
Books of this genre, these are essentially fairy tales, which are very fond of adults. Reading them, you can imagine yourself a brave knight or a powerful magician, well, or a charming beauty, at worst. The best authors who worked in this genre had a remarkable talent, great erudition and a very rich imagination. Many of these books are written very qualitatively, although there is also a shortage of low-quality literature. We would like to present to you the best books of fantasy , which can transfer the reader to the magical worlds of sword and magic.
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Ursula Le Guin. Tales of Earthsea
This cycle of books can be safely attributed to the best examples of this genre. The writer was able to create a real magical world, which played with bright and magical colors.
Earthsea is a real world of sword and magic, wise wizards and mighty heroes rule this world of spells and prophecies, dragons and terrible otherworldly creatures created by magic. Still it is possible to add, that this world is perfectly drawn, in it all is thought over up to trifles, and it really tightens. Millions of readers around the world are fans of the work of this American writer.
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Terry Pratchett. Color of magic
A world-famous author who wrote works in the genre of fantasy. He created a real magical land - Flat World. It is in him that his heroes live and act. They perform feats, fall into unthinkable adventures and troubles.
And, of course, there are all the attributes necessary for any book written in the genre of fantasy: dragons, trolls and other magical creatures. There is even a real death. All this is served with a subtle English humor.
In 2009, Pratchett was promoted to knights by the Queen of England herself for her services.
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Andrzej Sapkowski. Witcher
This is one of 's best works in the genre of fantasy .Rather, not one work, but a whole series of books that tells us about the adventures of the witch Geralt, his mission is the destruction of various kinds of evil spirits.
The books are beautifully written, the world of Sapkowski is very bright and natural, it is drawn to the smallest detail. He paid special attention to the psychological portraits of his characters. Gradually the fairy-tale space turns into a cruel and bloody world full of intrigues, conflicts and betrayal.
This series of books is very popular. Based on his motives, computer games were released, films were shot, comics were published.
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Clive Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia
This is a series of books written by Clive Staples Lewis and intended for children and adolescents. The writer painted a magical country called Narnia, which can be accessed in a variety of ways, even through an ordinary wardrobe. The main characters in the work are children or teenagers.
In this magical country everything is different from our world: animals are able to talk, magic rules everything and an endless struggle of good and evil. This cycle includes seven books, they are translated into dozens of languages of the world and published in multi-million copies.
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Philip Pullman. The Golden Compass
This is the first book of the famous trilogy of another Englishman, who is a recognized master in the genre of fantasy.
The book tells of an unusual world where powerful witches rule, polar bears are considered to be the best fighters and are able to talk, and each person has his talisman "demon" - a special animal that accompanies him all his life.
The book tells of a little girl Lear who is looking for her missing friend and this quest leads her to the very edge of the earth, to the far North. She needs to challenge the absolute evil and for this, it may have to step on the other side of the Northern Lights.
The books of this trilogy were on the list of the best books of all time , which was published in 2003.In 2007, the screen version of this novel was released, she was nominated for an Oscar.
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George Martin. Song of ice and flame
If the previous two books of the genre of fantasy can be safely called childish, then this literary masterpiece can not be said exactly. This is a whole series of books, the first of which was born in 1996.Their author is an American writer and screenwriter George Martin. At the present time, five books have already appeared from this series, the author plans to write seven works. The genre of these works can be called epic fantasy. Martin put a new bar of quality for the works of this genre.
The plot unfolds in a fictional world, which is called Vasteras. Here, winter and summer last for many years and the events described in this narrative are at the beginning of winter, which promises to be long and harsh. The world that is depicted in the books is very reminiscent of the later Middle Ages of our world.
In the books there are many storylines and a huge number of characters. Compared with other books of this genre, Matin's works have quite a bit of magic and magic. Most of the storylines are related to the struggle for the Iron Throne - the throne of the Seven Kingdoms. Interesting and important are the story lines that tell about the bastard John Snow and the events on the Ice Wall that protects the mainland from supernatural creatures coming from the north, as well as the line associated with the Deeneris Targarien, the last representative of her dynasty, who knows how to control dragons.
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Joan Keeling Rowling. Harry Potter
This story has become a cult and is already an integral part of world mass culture. In these books, we learn about Harry Potter, an orphan boy with a strange scar on his forehead who lives in an ordinary English family and does not suspect that he is a magician and the terrible secret associated with his birth.
However, he is not long in ignorance. Harry goes to an amazing school of magic and magic, learns the truth about his parents, finds true friends and finds himself in unthinkable adventures. He also finds dangerous enemies, with the most terrible and powerful of which he will have to fight many times.
In books Rowling created a bright and magical another world, which draws the reader. He is thought out to the smallest details, and they give this world an amazing charm.
All the books about Harry Potter and his friends are screened. Almost all the films had a stunning success. Curiously, the first book about a small magician Rowling could not publish, because the publishers did not believe in her commercial success. Now the books are translated into dozens of languages of the world, their circulation is estimated at millions.
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Michael Moorcock. Lord of Swords
This cycle can be safely attributed to the heroic genre. At the center of the narrative is the Eternal Hero( Eternal Warmaster), who travels through a multitude of parallel worlds and everywhere acts as a great warrior and commander. This hero has many incarnations, but in each of them he has a loyal friend and beloved and fights with a magic weapon. The hero always wins, but this brings him little joy, there is a definite doom in his features.
The worlds in which the Moorcock characters operate are truly beautiful and amazing. In them there are unusual creatures, the Gods decide the destinies of mortals, and courageous heroes perform numerous feats.
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Robert Jordan. Wheel of Time
Another series of books written in the genre of fantasy. The writer created a very colorful and elaborate world, in this he is not much inferior to such authority of the genre as Tolkien and Martin.
To create it, Jordan used almost all known terrestrial cultures. This world is very rich and interesting. The books of this author have a complex plot, in them you will find numerous intrigues, amazing magic, epic battles and unsolved riddles.
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John Tolkien. Lord of the Rings
The first place on our list is the Tolkien trilogy, which is rightly considered one of the of the best works of the fantasy genre .These books had a huge impact on the evolution of the genre and the development of mass culture. We can say that the following famous writers who worked in this genre were equal to Tolkien. He can be called the father of this genre.
The amazing and enchanting world of Middle Earth, in which the characters of the trilogy operate, is described to the smallest detail. Here there are numerous magical creatures: elves, gnomes, dragons, trolls and orcs. John Tolkien was a philologist, he studied the legends of the peoples of Northern and Central Europe and they became the basis of his books.
At the center of the narrative is a little hobbit Frodo, who must perform a very important mission, in fact, save the whole world. This one of the plot lines. He must throw the magic ring into the mouth of a flaming volcano. Meanwhile, in Middle Earth, evil is intensifying, the dark forces are trying to destroy the world. On their way arise the combined forces of people, dwarves and elves. Magic, epic battles, terrible offspring of evil forces, amazing animals - all this you can find in these works.
