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Fantastic Tales
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Author : Italo Calvino
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2015-05-19
Fantastic Tales written by Italo Calvino and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Fiction categories.
Twenty-six fantasy tales from the 19th century, tracing the genre from its roots in German romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James. The editor, who prefaces each story, analyzes the resurgence of the fantastic in our day.
Fantastic Tales For Fearless Girls
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Author : Anita Ganeri
language : en
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-01
Fantastic Tales For Fearless Girls written by Anita Ganeri and has been published by Arcturus Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This beautifully illustrated hardcover brings together 31 of the most courageous and irrepressible heroines of classic children's fiction and traditional folk tales from around the world. Discover the stories of plucky Dorothy, who freed faraway Oz from a terrible tyrant; brave Bradamante, who rides into battle on a flying horse; fearless Lykke, the mermaid who saved a prince from drowning; and many more thrilling tales. Beautiful full-color illustrations by award-winning Khoa Le accompany these stories, bringing these enchanting stories to life. Stories include: • Dorothy's Adventure in Oz • Hua Mulan, the Noble Warrior • Gerda and the Snow Queen • Princess Kaguya's Great Adventure • Hermione and Perdita
Fantastic Tales Of Nothing
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Author : Alejandra Green
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Fantastic Tales Of Nothing written by Alejandra Green and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-17 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
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.
Fantastic Tales
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Author : Edgar Allan Poe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Fantastic Tales written by Edgar Allan Poe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
Fantastic Tales
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Author : Iginio Ugo Tarchetti
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Fantastic Tales written by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Fiction categories.
"Giulia's corpse...rests in her shroud as if wrapped in the veils of her virginal bed. Her beauty has lost none of its seductiveness. A white dress, light, almost diaphanous, covers her modest figure.... Her pure white hands lie at her sides with the gentle surrender of sleep, and only her feet, pointing upward and joined together, bear witness to the horrible rigidity of death". This passage from "Bouvard", a macabre evocation of obsessive love beyond the grave, typifies the eerie narratives in Fantastic Tales. The first Gothic tales published in the Italian language, Tarchetti's strange stories recall and sometimes imitate those of Edgar Allan Poe, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Mary Shelley. In "A Spirit in a Raspberry", a nobleman is possessed by the soul of a servant girl; "The Letter U" recounts a man's mysterious phobia about that letter; the unexpected gift of everlasting life becomes a dreaded, endless curse in "The Elixir of Immortality". William Weaver, translator of Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco, writes: "While current Italian literature in English translation is closely followed by publishers, critics, and readers, the Italian writers of the past...are largely ignored. Lawrence Venuti now presents the nineteenth-century writer Iginio Ugo Tarchetti--a strange, romantic figure now almost forgotten even by Italian readers. But, as Venuti's probing introduction to this collection of tales indicates, Tarchetti is emblematic, the child of his times and their taste. These stories are enjoyable to read simply for themselves, but they also illustrate a literary culture of notable fascination. The translations flow, yet retain the flavor of their period and are true to the style andpersonality of their curious, gifted author". Mercury House is pleased to present the first English translation of Fantastic Tales, in a fine edition illustrated by San Francisco artist Jim Pearson.
Fantastic Tales
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Author : Honoré Beaugrand
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2020-06-12
Fantastic Tales written by Honoré Beaugrand and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-12 with categories.
Dora S Fantastic Tales
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Author : Valérie Videau
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-10-25
Dora S Fantastic Tales written by Valérie Videau and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
"Originally published in France in 2009 by Albin Michel, S.A. as Dora magicienne"--P. facing t.p.
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales
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Author : Vernon Lee
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2006-04-11
Hauntings And Other Fantastic Tales written by Vernon Lee and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-11 with Fiction categories.
Vernon Lee writes in the Preface to Hauntings, “My ghosts are what you call spurious ghosts... of whom I can affirm only one thing, that they haunted certain brains, and have haunted, among others, my own.” First published in 1890, Lee’s most famous volume of supernatural tales occupies a special place in the literature of the fantastic for its treatment of the femme fatale and the allure of the past, along with the themes of thwarted artistic creativity and psychological obsession. This collection, which includes the four stories originally published in Hauntings and three others, enables readers to consider Lee’s work anew for its subtle redefinitions of gender and sexuality during the Victorian fin-de-siècle. The appendices, which include extensive excerpts from writings by Lee’s predecessors and peers, including Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Lee’s brother Eugene Lee-Hamilton, allow the reader to see how Lee takes on the themes and preoccupations of the late-Victorian period but adapts them to her own purposes.
Fantastic Tales
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Author : Jack London
language : en
Publisher: Bison Books
Release Date : 1998
Fantastic Tales written by Jack London and has been published by Bison Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Fantasy fiction, American categories.
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.
American Fantastic Tales Vol 1 Loa 196
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Author : Peter Straub
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2009-10-01
American Fantastic Tales Vol 1 Loa 196 written by Peter Straub and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-01 with Fiction categories.
From early on, American literature has teemed with tales of horror, of hauntings, of terrifying obsessions and gruesome incursions, of the uncanny ways in which ordinary reality can be breached and subverted by the unknown and the irrational. As this pathbreaking two-volume anthology demonstrates, it is a tradition with many unexpected detours and hidden chambers, and one that continues to evolve, finding new forms and new themes as it explores the bad dreams that lurk around the edges—if not in the unacknowledged heart—of the everyday. Peter Straub, one of today’s masters of horror and fantasy, offers an authoritative and diverse gathering of stories calculated to unsettle and delight. This first volume surveys a century and a half of American fantastic storytelling, revealing in its forty-four stories an array of recurring themes: trance states, sleepwalking, mesmerism, obsession, possession, madness, exotic curses, evil atmospheres. In the tales of Irving, Poe, and Hawthorne, the bright prospects of the New World face an uneasy reckoning with the forces of darkness. In the ghost-haunted Victorian and Edwardian eras, writers including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Ambrose Bierce explore ever more refined varieties of spectral invasion and disintegrating selfhood. In the twentieth century, with the arrival of the era of the pulps, the fantastic took on more monstrous and horrific forms at the hands of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, and other classic contributors to Weird Tales. Here are works by acknowledged masters such as Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Conrad Aiken, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, along with surprising discoveries like Ralph Adams Cram’s “The Dead Valley,” Emma Francis Dawson’s “An Itinerant House,” and Julian Hawthorne’s “Absolute Evil.” American Fantastic Tales offers an unforgettable ride through strange and visionary realms. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.