Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday / by Italo Calvino.

• I. The Visionary Fantastic of the Nineteenth Century : The story of the Demoniac Pacheco / Jan Potocki -- Autumn sorcery / Joseph von Eichendorff -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott -- The elixir of life / Honoré de Balzac -- The eye with no lid / Philaréte Chasles -- The enchanted hand / Gérard de Nerval -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The nose / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol -- The beautiful vampire / Théophile Gautier -- The Venus of Ille / Prosper Mérimée -- The ghost and the bonesetter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- II. The Everyday Fantasic of the Nineteenth Century : The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen -- The signal-man / Charles Dickens -- The dream / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev -- A shameless rascal / Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov -- The very image / Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- Night: a nightmare / Guy de Maupassant -- A lasting love / Vernon Lee -- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce -- The holes in the mask / Jean Lorrain -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The friends of the friends / Henry James -- The bridge-builders / Rudyad Kipling -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells. Wells.

• From tales of fabulous enchantments and supernatural horror to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of 19th century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. 

Ämnesord

Fantasy fiction.  (LCSH)

Fantasy fiction  -- Translations into English. (cct)

Fiction  -- Translations into English. -- 19th century. (cct)

Fantasy.  (eflch)

Fantasy fiction.  (fast)

Fantasy.  (ukslc)

Fiction in Translation.  (ukslc)

Short Stories.  (ukslc)

Genre

Fantasy fiction.  (fast)

Fantasy fiction.  (lcgft)

Klassifikation

PN6120.95.F25 (LCC)

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