Fantastic Tales : Visionary And Everyday Paperback / softback
by Italo Calvino
Edited by Italo Calvino
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino.
These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish 'The Sandman', Poe's terrifying 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and Dickens's chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors.
Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:608 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
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- ISBN:9780141190129
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:608 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:28/05/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141190129