Fantastic tales
Subtitle: visionary and everyday
By: edited and with an introduction by Italo Calvino.
Contributors: Calvino, Italo.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 588
Subjects: Fantasy fiction -- Translations into English; Fiction -- 19th century -- Translations into English
Description: Compiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century, Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging precis to each story.