Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Philarète Chasles, Ivan Turgenev, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Jean Lorrain, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Dickens, Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, Honoré de Balzac, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Walter Scott, Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Vernon Lee, Jan Potocki, Prosper Mérimée, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Leskov, Italo Calvino, Nikolai Gogol, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H.G. Wells

608 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror short stories adventurous slow-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both a...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 34 reviews

Moods

mysterious 100%
adventurous 33%
challenging 33%
dark 33%

Pace

medium 100%

Plot- or character-driven?

A mix: 66% | Plot: 33%

Strong character development?

It's complicated: 33% | No: 33% | Yes: 33%

Loveable characters?

It's complicated: 100%

Diverse cast of characters?

It's complicated: 33% | N/A: 33% | Yes: 33%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

It's complicated: 33% | N/A: 33% | Yes: 33%

Average rating

4.02

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.