Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday

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Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday

edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino

(Penguin modern classics, . Fiction)(Penguin classics)

Penguin, 2009

  • : pbk

Other Title

Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento

Il fantastico visionario

Il fantastico quotidiano

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Note

"Originally published in Italy as two seperate volumes as Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento: volume primo, Il fantastico visionario and volume secondo, Il fantastico quotidiano by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan 1983"--T.p. verso

"This edition, with a new translation of the introduction, published in Great Britain in Penguin Classics 2001"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors 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's chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA90414660
  • ISBN
    • 9780141190129
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    mul
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 588 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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