Popular literature is sometimes considered as a cheap literature that consumed only by the common people. Tracing back to the origin of popular literature publishing, the purpose was to meet the need of people from middle to low class for books to read considering the fact that they could not afford to buy classics. Victor E. Neuberg in his book Popular Literature A History and Guide stated that “popular literature can be defined as what the unsophisticated reader has chosen for pleasure. Such a reader may, of course, come from any class in society, although the primary appeal of popular literature has been to the poor and, by the end of eighteen century, also to children”(12). There are certainly differences between popular literatures and classic literatures or some people call it high literatures, yet the limitation is nowadays very fluid and flexible. The so called classic literatures are sometimes can be seen as popular literature and vice versa. The most significant difference is in the genre. The classic literature genre consists of drama, poetry and prose or short stories whereas the popular literature genre consists of many different genres such as romance, detective, adventure, western, fantasy and many more.

A genre is a loose set of criteria for a category of composition; the term is often used to categorize literature and speech, but is also used for any other form of art or utterance. Genres are vague categories with no fixed boundaries, they are formed by sets of conventions, and many works cross into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions. The scope of the word “genre” is sometimes confined to art and culture, particularly literature and music, but it has a long history in rhetoric as well.(Wikipedia) In this paper we are going to talk about the popular literature which specifically concerned on one of its genres, Fantasy. To achieve a deep