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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

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Availability:In StockContributor:Italo CalvinoPublish date:2015-08-04Pages:608
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780544152090ISBN-10:544152093UPC:9780544152090Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Classics, FantasyBook Topic:Collections & AnthologiesSize:7.80 x 5.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCMY3A8KHN
"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
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner Books ClassicsISBN-13:9780544152090ISBN-10:544152093UPC:9780544152090Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Anthologies (multiple authors), Classics, FantasyBook Topic:Collections & AnthologiesSize:7.80 x 5.40 x 1.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCMY3A8KHN
ITALO CALVINO's superb storytelling gifts earned him international renown and a reputation as "one of the world's best fabulists" (New York Times Book Review). At the time of his death in 1985, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer.

Publisher: Mariner Books Classics

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Italo Calvino

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