Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday by Philarète Chasles, Ivan Turgenev, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Jean Lorrain, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Dickens, Joseph von Eichendorff, Honoré de Balzac, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Walter Scott, Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Vernon Lee, Jan Potocki, Prosper Mérimée, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Gogol, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H. G. Wells

Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday

Philarète Chasles, Ivan Turgenev, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Théophile Gautier, Jean Lorrain, Gérard de Nerval, Charles Dickens, Joseph von Eichendorff, Honoré de Balzac, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Walter Scott, Hans Christian Andersen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Vernon Lee, Jan Potocki, Prosper Mérimée, Rudyard Kipling, Guy de Maupassant, Nikolai Leskov, Nikolai Gogol, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, H. G. Wells

608 pages • first pub 1983 (view editions)

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With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both a...

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