Fantastic tales : visionary and everyday /
| Uniform Title: | Racconti fantastici dell'Ottocento. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1997]
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- I. The Visionary Fantastic of the Nineteenth Century : The story of the Demoniac Pacheco / Jan Potocki
- Autumn sorcery / Joseph von Eichendorff
- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Wandering Willie's tale / Sir Walter Scott
- The elixir of life / Honoré de Balzac
- The eye with no lid / Philaréte Chasles
- The enchanted hand / Gérard de Nerval
- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The nose / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
- The beautiful vampire / Prosper Mérimée
- The ghost and the bonesetter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- II. The Everyday Fantasic of the Noneteenth Century : The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe
- The shadow / Hans Christian Andersen
- The signal-man / Charles Dickens
- The dream / Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
- A shameless rascal / Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov
- The very image / Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- Night: a nightmare / Guy de Maupassant
- A lasting love / Vernon Lee
- Chickamauga / Ambrose Bierce
- The holes in the mask / Jean Lorrain
- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson
- The friends of the friends / Henry James
- The bridge-builders / Rudyad Kipling
- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells.