Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (Penguin Modern Classics)
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (Penguin Modern Classics) edited by Italo Calvino
English | May 28, 2009 | ISBN: 0141190124, 0544152093 | EPUB | 588 pages | 0.5 MB
English | May 28, 2009 | ISBN: 0141190124, 0544152093 | EPUB | 588 pages | 0.5 MB
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.