Visionary and Everyday
by Italo Calvino, Jan Potocki, Théophile Gautier, Prosper Mérimée, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Edgar Allan Poe, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Leskov, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Guy de Maupassant, Joseph von Eichendorff
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The acclaimed author presents " a rich and wide-ranging anthology " of 19th century fantasy and horror stories—with an original introduction for each ( Library Journal). Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nineteenth-century fantastic literature, selected and edited by Italo Calvino, a twentieth-century master of the speculative. As Calvino explains in his introduction to this collection, "the true theme of the nineteenth-century fantastic tale is the reality of what we see: to believe or not to believe in phantasmagoric apparitions, to glimpse another world, enchanted or infernal, behind everyday appearances." This anthology of twenty-six enchanting, uncanny, terrifying, and immortally entertaining short stories includes E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman," Nikolai Gogol's "The Nose," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp," and many more, each with a introduction by Calvino. "Impressive and utterly pleasing...Each story [Calvino] picks is absorbing, unique, and continually surprising."— Los Angeles Times
