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Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are...
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Vintage Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who's never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder. INCLUDING: *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J.R.R. Tolkien *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English PLUS: *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path! *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful--Do Not Trust Those Fairies! |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 822 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780525435563 0525435565 |
| Index Number: | PN6071 |
| CLC: | I14 |
| Call Number: | I14/B592-2 |
| Contents: |
INTRODUCTION / THE QUEEN'S SON / HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG / THE STORY OF THE HARD NUT / RIP VAN WINKLE / THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS / TRANSFORMATION / THE NEST OF NIGHTINGALES / THE FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM / THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON / THE NOSE / THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR / THE STORY OF JEON UNCHI / FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND / MASTER ZACHARIUS / THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE / THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS / THE MAGIC MIRROR / THE DIAMOND LENS / GOBLIN MARKET / THE WILL-O'-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN / THE LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN / LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE / FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS / THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL / THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE / THE BEE-MAN OF ORN / THE REMARKABLE ROCKET / THE ENSOULED VIOLIN / THE DEATH OF ODJIGH / THE TERRESTRIAL FIRE / THE KINGDOM OF CARDS / THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND / THE FULNESS OF LIFE / PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY / THE LITTLE ROOM / THE PLATTNER STORY / THE PRINCESS BALADINA--HER ADVENTURE / THE RELUCTANT DRAGON / IKTOMI TALES / MARIONETTES / DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS / THE WHITE PEOPLE / BLAMOL / GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY / SOWBREAD / THE ANGRY STREET / THE AUNT AND AMABEL / SACRIFICE / THE PRINCESS STEEL / THE HUMP / THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS / THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES / THE LAST REDOUBT / JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE / THE PLANT MEN / STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR / THE METAMORPHOSIS / THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS / THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS / DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR / THE BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE / THE ALLIGATOR WAR / FRIEND ISLAND / MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE / GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES / JOIWIND / SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN / SENNIN / KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA / AT THE BORDER / THE MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN / TALKATIVE DOMOVOI / THE RATCATCHER / THE SHADOW KINGDOM / THE MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT / A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM / THE WATER SPRITE'S TALE / THE CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY / COYOTE STORIES / UNCLE MONDAY / ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER / A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON / THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN / THE TOWN OF CATS / THE DEBUTANTE / THE JEWELS IN THE FOREST / EVENING PRIMROSE / THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM / THE MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS / LEAF BY NIGGLE / |