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Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories (Galaxy Books)
Fantastic Worlds Myths Tales and Stories - Galaxy Books
Author: Eric S. Rabkin
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, hi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195025415
ISBN-10: 0195025415
Publication Date: 6/7/1979
Pages: 478
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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* xi Preface (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 3 Introduction (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 27 The Sources of the Fantastic (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 41 Genesis (King James Version) (0000) shortstory by unknown
* 47 The Blackfoot Genesis (1892) shortstory by Blackfoot Myth
* 53 The Eye of the Giant (1979) shortstory by Togoland Myth
* 56 How I Brought Death Into the World (1952) shortstory by Amos Tutuola
* 62 The Myth of Actaeon (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 66 The Myth of Narcissus (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 72 The Myth of Philomela (1979) shortstory by Ovid
* 80 The Ghost Wife (1889) shortstory by Pawnee Folktale
* 82 The Magic Swan Geese (1855) shortstory by Russian Folktale
* 84 Why Tortoise's Shell Is Not Smooth (1958) shortstory by Chinua Achebe
* 87 How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox (1880) shortstory by Joel Chandler Harris
* 89 Paul Bunyan on the Columbia (1924) shortstory by Esther Shephard
* 96 Little Red-cap (1812) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 100 The Sleeping Beauty (1824) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 104 Hansel and Grethel (1812) shortstory by Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob Grimm [as by Wilhelm Grimm and Jakob Grimm ]
* 112 The Tinderbox (1835) shortstory by Hans Christian Andersen
* 120 The Tale of Cosmo (1858) novelette by George MacDonald
* 141 Leaf by Niggle (1964) shortstory by J. R. R. Tolkien
* 161 The Diversity of Fantastic Literature (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 175 Our Ideas of Time (1711) shortstory by Joseph Addison
* 179 Ritter Gluck: A Recollection from the Year 1809 (1809) shortstory by E. T. A. Hoffmann
* 190 The Oval Portrait (1842) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (aka Life in Death)
* 194 The Garden of Live Flowers (1872) shortstory by Lewis Carroll
* 202 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1939) shortstory by James Thurber
* 208 The Royal Banquet (1961) shortstory by Norton Juster
* 214 The Sandman (1816) novelette by E. T. A. Hoffmann (aka Der Sandmann)
* 247 The Black Cat (1843) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe
* 257 The Picture in the House (1924) shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft
* 266 The Hand (1861) shortstory by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
* 274 The Moonlit Road (1894) shortstory by Ambrose Bierce
* 284 Lost Hearts (1895) shortstory by M. R. James
* 294 Golden Wings (1856) shortstory by William Morris
* 311 The Sword of Welleran (1908) shortstory by Lord Dunsany
* 325 The Five Black Swans (1973) shortstory by Sylvia Townsend Warner
* 333 The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845) shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe (aka The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case)
* 343 The Birthmark (1843) shortstory by Nathaniel Hawthorne
* 360 The Star (1955) shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
* 372 EPICAC (1950) shortstory by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
* 380 The Third Level (1950) shortstory by Jack Finney
* 385 The Star (1897) shortstory by H. G. Wells
* 393 Modern Fantasy (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 399 The Judgment (1913) shortstory by Franz Kafka
* 410 A Common Confusion (1931) shortstory by Franz Kafka
* 411 Cockroaches (1934) shortstory by Bruno Schulz
* 415 Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (1962) shortstory by Jorge Luís Borges
* 424 Axolotl (1967) shortstory by Julio Cortázar
* 430 Pastoral (1954) shortstory by Tommaso Landolfi
* 438 All at One Point (1965) shortstory by Italo Calvino
* 443 There Is No Such Place as America (1969) shortstory by Peter Bichsel
* 450 The Piano Player (1963) shortstory by Donald Barthelme
* 453 Homage to the San Francisco YMCA (1971) shortstory by Richard Brautigan
* 456 The Marker (1963) shortstory by Robert Coover
* 460 The Zebra Storyteller (1971) shortstory by Spencer Holst
* 463 Annotated Bibliography (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin
* 475 Index (Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories) (1979) essay by Eric S. Rabkin


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