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The Treasury of the Fantastic

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
720 Seiten
Englisch
Tachyon Publicationserschienen am15.08.20132nd Second Edition, Second edition
The fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Imaginative stories of wit and intelligence weave through vivid landscapes that are alternately wondrous and terrifying. Bringing together major literary figures from the 19th and 20th centuries--from Alfred Lord Tennyson and Edith Wharton to Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde--these masters of English and American literature created unforgettable tales where goblins and imps comingle with humans from all walks of life. This deftly curated assemblage of notable classics and unexpected gems from the pre-Tolkien era will captivate and enchant readers. Forerunners of today's speculative fiction, these are the authors that changed the fantasy genre, forever.mehr
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KlappentextThe fantastic, the supernatural, the poetic, and the macabre entwine in this incomparable culmination of storytelling. Imaginative stories of wit and intelligence weave through vivid landscapes that are alternately wondrous and terrifying. Bringing together major literary figures from the 19th and 20th centuries--from Alfred Lord Tennyson and Edith Wharton to Edgar Allan Poe and Oscar Wilde--these masters of English and American literature created unforgettable tales where goblins and imps comingle with humans from all walks of life. This deftly curated assemblage of notable classics and unexpected gems from the pre-Tolkien era will captivate and enchant readers. Forerunners of today's speculative fiction, these are the authors that changed the fantasy genre, forever.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-61696-096-4
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Erscheinungsjahr2013
Erscheinungsdatum15.08.2013
Auflage2nd Second Edition, Second edition
Seiten720 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 155 mm, Höhe 228 mm, Dicke 49 mm
Gewicht776 g
Artikel-Nr.18833013
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GenreRomane Taschenbuch

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by Peter S. BeagleForeword by David Sandner and Jacob Weisman"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Darkness" by Lord Byron"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving"Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" by William Austin"The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathanial Hawthorne"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe"Morte d'Arthur" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson"Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson"The Golden Key" by George MacDonald"Carmilla" by J. Sheridan Le Fanu"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll"The Ogre Courting" by Juliana Horatia Ewing"The Ghostly Rental" by Henry James"The Dong With the Luminous Nose" by Edward Lear"The New Mother" by Lucy Lane Clifford"The Griffin and the Minor Canon" by Frank Stockton"The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde"The Stolen Child" by W. B. Yeats"An Occurrence at Owl Creek" by Ambrose Bierce"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman"The Bottle Imp" by Robert Louis Stevenson"A Moth: Genus Unknown" by H. G. Wells"Cassilda's Song" by Robert W. Chambers"The Library Window" by Margaret Oliphant"The True Lover" by A. E. Houseman"The Blind God" Laurence Houseman"The Reluctant Dragon" by Kenneth Grahame"The Book of Beasts" by Edith Nesbit"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs"Casting the Runes" by M. R. James"They" by Rudyard Kipling"The Sword of Welleran" by Lord Dunsany"The Celestial Omnibus" by E. M. Forster"The Eyes" by Edith Wharton"The Ghost Ship" by Richard Middleton"The Listeners" by Walter de la Mare"Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet" by Kenneth Morris"The Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain"Enoch Soames" by Max Beerbohm"Climax for a Ghost Story" by I. A. Ireland"A Haunted House" by Virginia Woolfmehr
Kritik
"The fantasy tradition in English and American literature is rich and varied and strange. This is the book to read to find out what you never knew you never knew you needed." --David G. Hartwell, editor, The Year's Best Fantasy series "A marvelous mixture of classics and rarely seen works, bibliophiles' finds and old favorites. This Treasury of the Fantastic is a treasury in every sense, and a treasure!" --Connie Willis, author, Doomsday Bookmehr

Autor

David Sandner is the author of the scholarly book The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fantasy Literature and the editor of Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader. His work has appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Asimov's Science Fiction, Pulphouse, Weird Tales, and the anthology Baseball Fantastic edited by W. P. Kinsella. Sandner is a professor at California State University Fullerton, where he teaches nineteenth-century British Literature, children's literature, gothic, science fiction, and fantastic literature.
Jacob Weisman is the World Fantasy Award?nominated editor and publisher at Tachyon Publications, which he founded in 1995. He is the series editor for several anthologies, including The Secret History of Fantasy, The Urban Fantasy Anthology, and Crucified Dreams: Tales of Urban Horror. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, the Courier-Journal, Seattle Weekly, the Cooper Point Journal, , and in the college textbook Sport in Contemporary Society.

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