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Author | : Italo Calvino |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 637 |
Release | : 2015-08-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 054423104X |
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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
Author | : Iginio Ugo Tarchetti |
Publisher | : Archipelago |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1939810620 |
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Lawrence Venuti, winner of a Guggenheim fellowship and the Global Humanities Translation Prize, among many other awards, has translated into English these Italian Gothic tales of obsessive love, mysterious phobias, and the hellish curse of everlasting life. In this collection of nine eerie stories, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti switches effortlessly between the macabre and the breezily comical. Set in nineteenth-century Italy, his characters court spirits and blend in with the undead: passionate romances filled with jealousy and devotion are fueled by magic elixirs. Time becomes fluid as characters travel between centuries, chasing affairs that never quite prosper. First published by Mercury House in 1992.
Author | : Alejandra Green |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062839497 |
Download Fantastic Tales of Nothing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the first book of this full-color fantasy graphic novel series filled with humor and hijinks, the fate of the land of Nothing hinges on Nathan and an unlikely team of magical beings to save the day—perfect for fans of Amulet and Estranged. Welcome to Nothing! Despite its name, this is a fantastic land where humans and magical volken coexist peacefully—at least they try . . . This is the tale of Nathan, an ordinary human (or so he thinks) living an ordinary life (or so he wishes). Everything changes when he meets Haven, a mysterious creature who is neither human nor volken. Oh, and the two of them are being chased by volken mercenaries—a grumpy wolf named Bardou and a delightful crow named Sina. Nathan soon learns he has mysterious powers, even though humans aren’t supposed to have magic. But there’s no time to dwell on that because this discovery sets the group on a perilous quest across windswept terrain, through haunted forests, and in ancient tombs. Nathan and his unlikely friends must prevent an impending war and defeat a dark evil to save their land. No pressure, of course. If they fail, everything will turn into, well . . . nothing.
Author | : Jack London |
Publisher | : Bison Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, American |
ISBN | : |
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A collection of fifteen fantastic tales, ranging far in time and space, from the psychological tension of an extraterrestrial encounter to a frontier tall tale of a trapper hunting a mammoth.
Author | : Valérie Videau |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1442433116 |
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"Originally published in France in 2009 by Albin Michel, S.A. as Dora magicienne"--P. facing t.p.
Author | : Eric S. Rabkin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 1979-06-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0198020244 |
Download Fantastic Worlds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.
Author | : P. D Cacek |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1434409120 |
Download Cat Tales 2 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The second volume in the "Cat Tales" series collects 17 original tales and poems concerning cats (plus one classic story by Edgar Pangborn and an essay by H.P. Lovecraft) into the purr-fect anthology for cat lovers! Here you will find "If Wishes Were Fishes," by P.D. Cacek; "The Case of the Unfortunate Mrs Ripley's Cat," by Jeff Crook; "The Problem with Polly," by Scott William Carter, and much more. Edited by four-time Hugo Award-winning editor, George Scithers.
Author | : Ebony Elizabeth Thomas |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1479806072 |
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Reveals the diversity crisis in children's and young adult media as not only a lack of representation, but a lack of imagination Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children’s publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. The Dark Fantastic is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction. Grounded in her experiences as YA novelist, fanfiction writer, and scholar of education, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some of the most popular stories of the early 21st century: Bonnie Bennett from the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, Rue from Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games, Gwen from the BBC’s Merlin, and Angelina Johnson from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. Analyzing their narratives and audience reactions to them reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. In response, Thomas uncovers and builds upon a tradition of fantasy and radical imagination in Black feminism and Afrofuturism to reveal new possibilities. Through fanfiction and other modes of counter-storytelling, young people of color have reinvisioned fantastic worlds that reflect their own experiences, their own lives. As Thomas powerfully asserts, “we dark girls deserve more, because we are more.”
Author | : IglooBooks |
Publisher | : Igloo Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019-11-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781838525156 |
Download My Fantastic Fairy Tale Collection Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Settle down for an enchanting storytime with this stunning collection of best-loved fairy tales. With retellings of 11 classic stories, little ones will want to climb the beanstalk with Jack, meet Cinderella at the ball, and much more over and over again. Includes: Beauty and the Beast Cinderella The Frog Prince The Gingerbread Man Goldilocks and the Three Bears Hansel and Gretel Jack and the Beanstalk The Little Mermaid Puss in Boots Rapunzel Snow White
Author | : Béroalde de Verville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, French |
ISBN | : |
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