Fantastic Tales
Visionary And Everyday
$36.77
- Paperback
608 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2009
Summary
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 Honore de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Lou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141190129 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141190124 |
| Author: | Italo Calvino |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 608 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 447g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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‘Describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty’ - Gore Vidal ‘One of the most playful, intelligent and inventive minds in the whole of European fiction’ - Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday
About The Author
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.
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