Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday Paperback - 2014
by Italo Calvino
A collection of short stories compiled, edited, and introduced by Italo Calvino — including works of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Balzac, Gogol, Poe, and many others — surveying the phenomenon of the fantastic in 19th-century European literature.
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From the rear cover
The true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances. from Calvino s introduction to Fantastic Tales
Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. This posthumously published anthology of enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann s The Sandman, Nikolai Gogol s The Nose, Edgar Allan Poe s The Tell-Tale Heart, Robert Louis Stevenson s The Bottle Imp, and many more, each with an introduction by Calvino. Fantastic Tales is a delight for the mind and a feast for the senses.
Impressive and utterly pleasing . . . Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising. Los Angeles Times
ITALO CALVINO (1923 1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century s greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.
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- Title Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
- Author Italo Calvino
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 608
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books Classics
- Date 2014-07-15
- ISBN 9780544152090 / 0544152093
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.4 x 1.7 in (19.81 x 13.72 x 4.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code 808.838
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