| Description |
822 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Ann and Jeff VanderMeer -- Queen's son / Bettina von Arnim -- Hans-my-hedgehog / Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Story of the hard nut / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- Luck of the bean-rows / Charles Nodier -- Transformation / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Nest of nightingales / Theophile Gautier -- Fairytale about a dead body, belonging to no one knows whom / Vladmir Odoevsky -- Story of the goblins who stole a sexton / Charles Dickens -- Nose / Nikjolai Gogl -- Facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- Story of Jeon Unchi / Anonymous -- Feathertop: A moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Master Zacharius / Jules Verne -- Frost-king: or, the power of love / Louisa May Alcott -- Tartarus of maids / Herman Melville -- Magic mirror / George MacDonald -- Diamond lens / Fitz-James O'Brien -- Goblin market / Christina Rossetti -- Will-o'-the-wisps are in town / Hans Christian Andersen -- Legend of the pale maiden / Aleksis Kivi -- Looking-glass house / Lewis Carroll -- Furnica, or the queen of the ants / Carmen Sylva -- Story of Ivan the fool / Leo Tollstoy -- Goophered grapevine / Charles W. Chestnutt -- Bee-man of orn / Frank R. Stockton -- Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde -- Ensouled violin / H. P. Blavatskaya -- Death of odjigh / Marcel Schwob -- Terrestrial fire / Marcel Schwob -- Kingdom of cards / Rabindranath Tagore -- Other side: A Breton legend / Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock -- Fulness of life / Edith Wharton -- Prince Alberic and the snake lady / Vernon Lee -- Little room / Madeline yale Wynne -- Plattner story / H. G. Wells -- Princess Baladina--Her adventure / Willa Cather -- Reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame -- Iktomi tales / Zitkala-Sa -- Marionettes / Louis Frechette -- Dance of the comets: An astral pantomime in two acts / Paul Scheerbart -- White people / Arthur Machen -- Blamol / Gustav Meyrink -- Goblins: A logging camp story / Louis Frechette -- Sowbread / Grazia Deledda -- Angry street / G. K. Chesterton -- Aunt and Amabel / E. Nesbit -- Sacrifice / Aleksey Remizov -- Princess steel / W. E. B. Du Bois -- Hump / Fernan Caballero -- Celestial omnibus / E. M. Forster -- Legend of the ice babies / E. Pauline Johnson -- Last redoubt / William Hope Hodgson -- Jack Pumpkinhead and the sawhorse / L. Frank Baum -- Plant men / Edgar Rce Burroughs -- Strange news from another start / Hermann Hesse -- Metamorphosis / Franz Kafka -- Hoard of the gibbelins / Lord Dunsany -- Through the dragon glass / A. Merritt -- David Blaize and the blue door / E. F. Benson -- Big bestiary of modern literature / Franz Blei -- Alligator war / Horacio Quiroga -- Friend island / Francis Stevens -- Magic comes to a committee / Stella Benson -- Gramophone of the ages / Yefim Zozulya -- Joiwin / David Lindsay -- Sound in the mountain / Maurice Renard -- Sennin / Ryunosuke Akutagawa -- Koshtra Pivrarcha / E. R. Eddison -- At the border / Der Nister -- Marvelous exploits of Paul Bunyan / W. B. Laughead -- Talkative Domovoi / Aleksandr Grin -- Ratcatcher / Aleksandr Grin -- Shadow kingdom / Robert E. Howard -- Man traveling with the brocade portrait / Edogawa Ranpo -- A visit to the museum / Vladimir Nabokov -- Water sprite's tale / Karel Capek -- Capital of cat country / Loa She -- Coyote stories / Mourning Dove -- Uncle Monday / Zora Neale Hurston -- Rose-cold, moon skater / Maria Teresa Leon -- A Night of the high season / Bruno Schulz -- Influence of the sun / Fernand Dumont -- Towns of cats / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- The ďbutante / Leonora Carrington -- Jewels in the forest / Fritz Libbey -- Evening primrose / John Collier -- Coming of the white worm / Clark Ashton Smith -- Man who could walk through walls / Marcel Ayme -- Leaf by niggle / J. R. R. Tolkien |
| Summary |
Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight--on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy is essential reading for anyone who's never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder. INCLUDING: *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English PLUS: *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path! *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful--Do Not Trust Those Fairies! |
| Subject(S) |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Added Name(S) |
VanderMeer, Ann, editor, writer of introduction.
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VanderMeer, Jeff, editor, writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780525435563 (paperback) |
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