Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
By: compiled by David G. Hartwell with the assistance of Kathryn Cramer
Publisher: Guild America Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9781568650395
Subjects: Fantasy literature
Description: A compilation of thirty-eight unique tales of magic and fantasy by such authors as William Morris, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mark Twain.
Notes: Jacket by Thomas Canty.
Table of contents: title: Rule of names / Ursula K. Le Guin; title: Magic fishbone / Charles Dickens; title: Goddess on the street corner / Margaret St. Clair; title: Feathertop: a moralized lesson / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: Root and the ring / Wyman Guin; title: Green magician / L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt; title: Our fair city / Robert A. Heinlein; title: Man who could not see devils / Joanna Russ; title: Hieroglyphic tales: New Arabian night's entertainment ; King and his three daughters ; Dice-box, a fairy tale ; Peach in brandy, a Milesian tale ; True love story ; Bird's nest / Horace Walpole; title: Birds of prey / John Collier; title: Detective of dreams / Gene Wolfe; title: Bee-man of Orn / Frank R. Stockton; title: Red hawk / Elizabeth A. Lynn; title: Canvasser's tale / Mark Twain; title: Silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon; title: New mother / Lucy Clifford; title: Mr. Lupescu / Anthony Boucher; title: King of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet; title: Uncle Einar / Ray Bradbury; title: Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber; title: Great is Diana / Avram Davidson; title: Last of the huggermuggers: a giant story / Christopher P. Cranch; title: Tobermory / Saki; title: King of the elves / Philip K. Dick; title: American fairy tales: Glass dog ; Queen of Quok ; Magic bonbons ; Dummy that lived / L. Frank Baum; title: Tale of the dragons and dreamers / Samuel R. Delany; title: (from) Phantasmion / Sara Coleridge; title: Tales: Sapphire necklace ; Regent of the north ; Eyeless dragons: a Chinese story / Kenneth Morris; title: Elric at the end of time / Michael Moorcock; title: Lindenborg pool / William Morris; title: Moon pool / A. Merritt; title: Sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany; title: Operation Afreet / Poul Anderson.