Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday - Hardcover

Calvino, Italo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679415262 ISBN 13: 9780679415268

Publisher: Pantheon, 1997

Synopsis

Gathers twenty-six nineteenth century fantasy stories by American and European authors, including Scott, Hawthorne, Gogol, Stevenson, Poe, James, and Turgenev

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Review:

'Describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty' - Gore Vidal 'One of the most playful, intelligent and inventive minds in the whole of European fiction' - Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

From the Back Cover:

Edited with an Introduction by Italo Calvino

'Describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty' Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books

From tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish 'The Sandman', Poe's terrifying 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and Dickens' chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', with relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each tale comes with a fascinating introduction by Italo Calvino.

'One of the most playful, intelligent and inventive minds in the whole of European fiction' Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679415262
• ISBN 13: 9780679415268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 588