The big book of classic fantasy, the ultimate collection, edited and with an introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
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The big book of classic fantasy, the ultimate collection, edited and with an introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
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eng
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fiction
Main title
The big book of classic fantasy
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1080251757
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edited and with an introduction by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Sub title
the ultimate collection
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!
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- The town of cats
- The hoard of the Gibbelins
- Blamol
- David Blaize and the blue door
- The jewels in the forest
- The goophered grapevine
- Looking glass house
- The reluctant dragon
- The legend of the ice babies
- Jack Pumpkinhead and the sawhorse
- Prince Alberic and the snake lady
- Goblins: a loggong camp story
- The terrestrial fire
- Transformation
- Hans my Hedgehog
- The big beastiary of moder literature
- The ensouled violin
- Sacrifice
- The Queen's son
- The power of love
- Leaf by niggle
- Furnica
- The last redoubt
- The hump
- The story of the goblins who stole a sexton
- The plattner story
- The nest of the nightingales
- The fairy tale about a dead body
- The little lady
- Rip Van Winkle
- Sound of the mountain
- A visit to the museum
- The luck of the bean rows
- The plant men
- Feathertop: a moralized legend
- Strange news from another star
- The bee man of Orn
- The white people
- Goblin Market
- The debutante
- The facts in the case
- Koshtra Pivrarcha
- The man traveling with the brocade portrait
- The princess of Baladina, her adventure
- Magic come to a committee
- The remarkable rocket
- The man who could walk through walls
- Sennin
- A night of the high season
- The metamorphosis
- The princess steel
- Marionettes
- The queen of the ants
- The death of Odjigh
- The diamond lens
- The asunt and Amabel
- The story of the hard nut
- The fullness of life
- The shadow kingdom
- The frost king
- The angry street
- The water sprite's tale
- Sowbread
- The matvelous exploits of Paul Bunyan
- The story of Ivan the fool
- Master Zacharius
- The nose
- The influence of the sun
- Evening primrose
- The alligator war
- Coyote stories
- The kingdom of cards
- Joiwind
- Dance of the comets: an astral pantomime in two acts
- The other side: a Breton Legend
- The rat catcher
- The coming of the white worm
- Through the dragon glass
- Uncle Monday
- Talkative Domovoi
- The legend of the pale maiden
- Friend island
- The tartarus of maids
- The capital of cat country
- The ratcatcher
- Rose cold, moon skater
- Belonging to no one knows whom
- The magic mirror
- The storu of Jeon Unchi
- The celestial omnibus
- The will o wisps are in town
- Gramophone of the ages
- Iktomi tales
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- The town of cats
- The hoard of the Gibbelins
- Blamol
- David Blaize and the blue door
- The jewels in the forest
- The goophered grapevine
- Looking glass house
- The reluctant dragon
- The legend of the ice babies
- Jack Pumpkinhead and the sawhorse
- Prince Alberic and the snake lady
- Goblins: a loggong camp story
- The terrestrial fire
- Transformation
- Hans my Hedgehog
- The big beastiary of moder literature
- The ensouled violin
- Sacrifice
- The Queen's son
- The power of love
- Leaf by niggle
- Furnica
- The last redoubt
- The hump
- The story of the goblins who stole a sexton
- The plattner story
- The nest of the nightingales
- The fairy tale about a dead body
- The little lady
- Rip Van Winkle
- Sound of the mountain
- A visit to the museum
- The luck of the bean rows
- The plant men
- Feathertop: a moralized legend
- Strange news from another star
- The bee man of Orn
- The white people
- Goblin Market
- The debutante
- The facts in the case
- Koshtra Pivrarcha
- The man traveling with the brocade portrait
- The princess of Baladina, her adventure
- Magic come to a committee
- The remarkable rocket
- The man who could walk through walls
- Sennin
- A night of the high season
- The metamorphosis
- The princess steel
- Marionettes
- The queen of the ants
- The death of Odjigh
- The diamond lens
- The asunt and Amabel
- The story of the hard nut
- The fullness of life
- The shadow kingdom
- The frost king
- The angry street
- The water sprite's tale
- Sowbread
- The matvelous exploits of Paul Bunyan
- The story of Ivan the fool
- Master Zacharius
- The nose
- The influence of the sun
- Evening primrose
- The alligator war
- Coyote stories
- The kingdom of cards
- Joiwind
- Dance of the comets: an astral pantomime in two acts
- The other side: a Breton Legend
- The rat catcher
- The coming of the white worm
- Through the dragon glass
- Uncle Monday
- Talkative Domovoi
- The legend of the pale maiden
- Friend island
- The tartarus of maids
- The capital of cat country
- The ratcatcher
- Rose cold, moon skater
- Belonging to no one knows whom
- The magic mirror
- The storu of Jeon Unchi
- The celestial omnibus
- The will o wisps are in town
- Gramophone of the ages
- Iktomi tales
- Other version1
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