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Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
| Author: | Italo Calvino |
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Pantheon Books, 1997 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Compiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging précis to each story.
As Calvino writes in Fantastic Tales, which traces the genre from its roots in German Romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James: "The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of nineteenth-century narrative. For us, it is also one of the most significant.... As it relates to our sensibility today, the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appears freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten.... In this we see the modern dimension of the fantastic, the reason for its triumphant resurgence in our times."
Fantastic Tales is a fantastically canonical anthology assembled by an editor who, in the words of Salman Rushdie, "possesses the power of seeing into the deepest recesses of human minds and then bringing their dreams back to life."
Table of Contents:
- vii - Introduction (Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday) - essay by Italo Calvino
- 3 - The Story of the Demoniac Pacheco (Excerpt) - (1805) - shortfiction by Jan Potocki
- 17 - Autumn Sorcery - (1808) - novella by Joseph von Eichendorff
- 33 - The Sandman - (1816) - novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- 73 - Wandering Willie's Tale - (1824) - shortstory by Sir Walter Scott
- 95 - The Elixir of Life - (1830) - shortstory by Honoré de Balzac
- 123 - The Eye with No Lid - (1832) - shortfiction by Philarete Chasles
- 143 - The Enchanted Hand - (1832) - shortfiction by Gérard de Nerval
- 181 - Young Goodman Brown - (1835) - shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- 197 - The Nose - (1835) - shortfiction by Nikolai Gogol
- 227 - The Beautiful Vampire - (1836) - novelette by Théophile Gautier
- 261 - The Venus of Ille - (1837) - novelette by Prosper Mérimée
- 293 - The Ghost and the Bonesetter - (1838) - shortstory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- 307 - The Tell-Tale Heart - (1843) - shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
- 315 - The Shadow - (1847) - shortstory by Hans Christian Andersen
- 331 - The Signalman - (1866) - shortstory by Charles Dickens
- 347 - The Dream - (1876) - shortfiction by Ivan Turgenev
- 371 - A Shameless Rascal - (1879) - shortfiction by Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov
- 389 - The Very Image - (1883) - shortfiction by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- 395 - Night: A Nightmare - (1887) - shortstory by Guy de Maupassant
- 403 - A Lasting Love - (1887) - novelette by Vernon Lee
- 441 - Chickamauga - (1889) - shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
- 451 - The Holes in the Mask - shortstory by Jean Lorrain
- 461 - The Bottle Imp - (1891) - novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 493 - The Friends of the Friends - (1896) - novelette by Henry James
- 523 - The Bridge-Builders - (1898) - novelette by Rudyard Kipling
- 559 - The Country of the Blind - (1904) - novelette by H. G. Wells
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