Title Fantastic worlds : myths, tales, and stories / edited and with commentaries by Eric S. Rabkin

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1979

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) : illustrations Series OUP E-Books Contents Introduction -- The sources of the fantastic -- Genesis (KJV) -- The Blackfoot Genesis / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The eye of the giant / Ada Cardinall, ed. -- How I brought death into the world / Amos Tutuola -- The myth of Actaeon ; The myth of Narcissus ; The myth of Philomela / Ovid -- The ghost wife / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The magic swan geese / Alexandr Afanas'ev, ed. -- Why tortoise's shell is not smooth / Chinua Achebe -- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris -- Paul Bunyan on the Columbia / Esther Shephard -- Little Red-cap ; The sleeping beauty ; Hansel and Grethel / Jakob Grimm ; Wilhelm Grimm -- The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen -- The tale of Cosmo / George MacDonald -- Leaf by Niggle / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The diversity of fantastic literature --Our ideas of time / Joseph Addison -- Ritter Gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- The garden of live flowers / Lewis Carroll -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The royal banquet / Norton Juster -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The picture in the house / H.P. Lovecraft -- The hand / Joseph Sheridan LeFanu -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lost hearts / M.R. James -- Golden wings / William Morris -- The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany -- The five black swans / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The star / H.G. Wells -- EPICAC / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The third level / Jack Finney -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The judgment ; A common confusion / Franz Kafka -- Cockroaches / Bruno Schulz -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Axolotl / Julio Cortázar -- Pastoral / Tommaso Landolfi -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- There is no such place as America / Peter Bichsel -- The piano player / Donald Barthelme -- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA / Richard Brautigan -- The marker / Robert Coover -- The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst Summary Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder Analysis Fantasy stories, to 1978 Anthologies. English texts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Fantasy literature. Literature. Literature, Modern. Fantasy literature -- Literary collections fantasies (literary works) FICTION -- Anthologies (multiple authors) Literature, Modern Fantasy literature Literature Fantastic fiction. Short stories. Genre/Form Literary collections Fantasy fiction Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. Form Electronic book Author Rabkin, Eric S. LC no. 78011482 ISBN 9780198020240 0198020244 1280522844 9781280522840 9786610522842 6610522847

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