Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calvino, Italo
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Penguin 2009
Table of Contents:
  • xix, 588 pages ; 20 cm. Contents: 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.

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