Wandering alone on Tormance, the one inhabited planet of the star Arcturus, the hero of this remarkable story cries, “I must make up my mind that this is a strange journey, and that the strangest things will happen in it."And the strangest things do indeed happen in a book that is at once an engrossing fantasy and a profound metaphysical fable.Maskull is transported to the Arcturan planet where a series of mysterious adventures causes him to undergo countless physical transformations. The people he meets— some frightening, some spiritually beautiful —are like none on earth, and their behavior is like that of no mortal Maskull has ever known. Gradually Maskull becomes aware that his journey is the journey of a human soul caught in a death struggle between good and evil.

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence. It has been described by the critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Lindsay\'s descriptive prose is simply beyond compare. Lindsay was author of A Haunted Woman, and is considered to be one of the great British fantasy authors. His work forms a bridge from George MacDonald to authors such as C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, who both greatly admired Lindsay\'s work. It was Lindsay that discovered the authentic use for other planets in fiction.

Engaged to a decent but unexceptional man, Isbel Loment, leads an empty life, moving with her aunt from hotel to hotel. She is perverse and prickly with untapped resources of character and sensibility. They explore by chance a strange house and there Isbel meets Judge, its owner; a profoundly disturbing relationship develops and it is from this that the drama unfolds.

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