Fantastic Worlds Myths, Tales, and Stories

Name: Fantastic Worlds Myths, Tales, and Stories
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ISBN: 9780195025415

ISBN-10: 0195025415

ISBN-13: 9780195025415

Edition: 1979

Authors: Eric S. Rabkin

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As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.

Book details

List price: $43.99
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/7/1979
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.39" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction


The Sources of the Fantastic


The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis King James Version


Myth


The Blackfoot Genesis


The Eye of the Giant


How I Brought Death into the World


The Myth of Actaeon Ovid


The Myth of Narcissus


The Myth of Philomela


The Ghost Wife


Folktale


The Magic Swan Geese


Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth


How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox


Paul Bunyan on the Columbia


Fairy Tale


Little Red-Cap


The Sleeping Beauty


Hansel and Grethel


The Tinderbox


The Tale of Cosmo


Leaf by Niggle


The Diversity of Fantastic Literature


Our Ideas of Time


Fantasy


Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809


The Oval Portrait


The Garden of Live Flowers


The Secret Life of Walter Mitty


The Royal Banquet


Horror Fiction


The Sandman


The Black Cat


The Picture in the House


The Hand


Ghost Stories


The Moonlit Road


Lost Hearts


Golden Wings


Heroic Fantasy


The Sword of Welleran


The Five Black Swans


Science Fiction


The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar


The Birthmark


The Star


Epicac


The Third Level


The Star


Modern Fantasy


The Judgment


A Common Confusion


Cockroaches


Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote


Axolotl


Pastoral


All at One Point


There Is No Such Place as America


The Piano Player


Homage to the San Francisco YMCA


The Marker


The Zebra Storyteller


Annotated Bibliography


Index