Fantastic tales visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

Other author Calvino, Italo.
Format Book
Edition1st American ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Pantheon Books, ©1997.
Descriptionxviii, 588 pages ; 24 cm
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Uniform titleRacconti fantastici dell'Ottocento. English.
Contents I. The Visionary Fantastic of the Nineteenth Century : The story of the Demoniac Pacheco / Jan Potocki -- Autumn sorcery / Joseph von Eichendorff -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The elixir of life / Honoré de Balzac -- The eye with no lid / Philaréte Chasles -- The enchanted hand / Gérard de Nerval -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol -- The beautiful vampire / Théophile Gautier -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Mérimée -- The ghost and the bonesetter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- II. The Everyday Fantasic of the Nineteenth Century : The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- The dream / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- A shameless rascal / Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov -- The very image / Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Night: a nightmare / Guy de Maupassant -- A lasting love / Vernon Lee -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- The holes in the mask / Jean Lorrain -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The friends of the friends / Henry James -- The bridge-builders / Rudyad Kipling -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells.
Abstract Twenty-six fantasy tales from the 19th century, tracing the genre from its roots in German romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James. The editor, who prefaces each story, analyzes the resurgence of the fantastic in our day.
Local noteJoyner-See also manuscript material related to the James H. and Virginia Schlobin Literature of the Fantastic Collection. Ask in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Schlobin copy Gift of Roger Schlobin, 2004
LCCN 93012824
ISBN0679415262

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Joyner Schlobin Fantasy Collection PN6120.95.F25 R3313 1997 ✔ Available Request Material