Fantastic Tales : Visionary & Everyday

Author: Calvino, Italo

Brand: Penguin

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 608

Release Date: 28-05-2009

Part Number: 9780141190129

Details: Product Description
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.
Review
'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, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino 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.

EAN: 9780141190129

Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 1.5 inches

Languages: English, Italian