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Fantastic Tales

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**The acclaimed author presents “** **a rich and wide-ranging anthology** **” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each ( *Library Journal* ).** 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. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, “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.” This anthology of twenty-six 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 a introduction by Calvino. **“Impressive and utterly pleasing…Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising.”— *Los Angeles Times***

About Author

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics col

Author

Italo Calvino

Format

Ebook

ISBN

9780141190129

Language

English

Pages

496

Publication Date

05-27-2009

Publisher

Penguin Classics

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