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

Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

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

608 pages • first pub 1983 (editions)

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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...

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