Fantastic Tales : Visionary and Everyday
, by CALVINO, ITALONote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780679755449 | 0679755446
- Cover: Trade Paper
- Copyright: 10/27/1998
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestsellingItalian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an education in the history of fantastic literature and a rollercoaster ride of wonder and terror, vampires, ghosts, and the rebellious creatures of our own psyches. Selections include: E.T.A. Hoffmann--"The Sandman" Gerard de Nerval--"the Enchanted Hand" Nikolai Gogol--"The Nose" Edgar Allan Poe--"The Tell-Tale Heart" Hans Christian Andersen--"The Shadow" Ambrose Bierce--"Chickamauga" Robert Louis Stevenson--"The Bottle Imp" Henry James--"The Friends of the Friends" H.G. Wells--"The Country of the Blind" Comprising stories of the supernatural and narratives of the everyday uncanny,Fantastic Talesis a gallery of enchantments, deliciously entertaining yet more disturbing than our most persistent nightmares.