Bedtime stories
By: edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Series: Everyman's pocket classics
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9780307594945
Copyright date: 2011
Description: In "Bedtime Stories, "great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the real and the unreal, between waking and dreaming. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" to the unspeakable horror that haunts two little girls in A. S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest," from Washington Irving's comical "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to Ursula K. LeGuin's sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in "The Poacher," these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and fairy tales into high art. Isak Dinesen, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, Julio Cortazar, Steven Millhauser, Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, and many more mingle their voices in this one-volume gateway to dreams--the perfect bedside companion for fiction lovers everywhere.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."
Table of contents: title: The thing in the forest / A.S. Byatt; title: Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Troll bridge / Neil Gaiman; title: The poacher / Ursula K. LeGuin; title: The sailor-boy's tale / Isak Dinesen; title: The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The industrious tailor / William Maxwell; title: The dragon / Vladimir Nabokov; title: Night / Guy de Maupassant; title: Where the tides ebb and flow / Lord Dunsany; title: The night face up / Julio Cortázar; title: An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge / Ambrose Bierce; title: The country of the blind / H.G. Wells; title: The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving; title: The curious case of Benjamin Button / F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: A visit / Steven Millhauser; title: The tiger's bride / Angela Carter; title: The dancing dwarf / Haruki Murakami.