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Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

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Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

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Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

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Full title

Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, c1997.

Uniform title

Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento. English.

Call Numbers

N853.7/2

Record Identifier

74VMQKbrQkQd

MMS ID

991000419909702626

Language

English

Italian

(Language of original)

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

xviii, 588 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents

Introduction / Italo Calvino -- The Story of the Demoniac Pacheco / Jan Potocki -- Autumn Sorcery / Joseph von Eichendorff -- The Sandman / E. T. A. Hoffmann -- Wandering Willie's Tale / Walter Scott -- The Elixir of Life / Honore de Balzac -- The Eye with No Lid / Philarete Chasles -- The Enchanted...

The Bottle Imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The Friends of the Friends / Henry James -- The Bridge-Builders / Rudyard Kipling -- The Country of the Blind / H. G. Wells.

Publication information

Publisher

New York : Pantheon Books, c1997.

Edition

1st American ed.

Place of Publication

New York (State)

Date Published

c1997.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

Compiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century, 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...

Alternative Titles

Full title

Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Artists

Contextual Information

Date Copyright

c1997.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N853.7/2

Record Identifier

74VMQKbrQkQd

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMQKbrQkQd

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0679415262

9780679415268

DDC

853.7/2

MMS ID

991000419909702626

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