# Classic Fantasy: Portals, Magic & Invented Worlds

From Lewis Carroll's rabbit hole to Tolkien's Middle-earth, fantasy builds secondary worlds that illuminate our own. One timeless free classic, four essential modern reads.

Source: https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/lists/classic-fantasy/

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## Alice's Adventures in Wonderland — Free

Author: Lewis Carroll
Read online (free, public domain): https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/alice-in-wonderland/

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pi...

## The Hobbit — Kindle

Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
Buy on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002RI9ZY0?tag=cyberlibrar00-20

Bilbo Baggins is dragged from his comfortable hole by a wizard and thirteen dwarves seeking dragon gold.

## The Name of the Wind — Kindle

Author: Patrick Rothfuss (2007)
Buy on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SKUYM?tag=cyberlibrar00-20

Kvothe tells his life story — from orphan to legendary wizard — over three days in a waystone inn.

## Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell — Kindle

Author: Susanna Clarke (2004)
Buy on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003RRXXMA?tag=cyberlibrar00-20

Two magicians attempt to restore English magic in an alternative Napoleonic War-era Britain.

## The Princess Bride — Kindle

Author: William Goldman (1973)
Buy on Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BWJC5F6?tag=cyberlibrar00-20

Adventure, true love, and a swamp full of monsters — framed as the abridgement of a classic tale.