Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday
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Bibliographic Information
Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday
（Penguin modern classics, . Fiction）（Penguin classics）
Penguin, 2009
- : pbk
- Other Title
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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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