Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679755446 ISBN 13: 9780679755449

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1998

Synopsis

Introduced by the late novelist and editor of Italian Folktales, a varied collection of twenty-six enduring, nineteenth-century tales of the fantastic includes stories by Honore+a7 de Balzac, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ivan Turgenev. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

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: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679755446
• ISBN 13: 9780679755449
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 588
• Editor: Calvino Italo