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Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment
Author: | David G. Hartwell Kathryn Cramer |
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Nelson Doubleday, 1988 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Here are 44 compelling tales of the fantastic--many never before anthologized--by such classic writers as L. Frank Baum and Charles Dickens through today's finest writers, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ and Michael Moorcock.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by David G. Hartwell
- The Rule of Names - (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Magic Fishbone - (1868) - short story by Charles Dickens
- The Goddess on the Street Corner - (1953) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
- Feathertop: A Moralized Legend - (1854) - short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Root and the Ring - (1954) - novelette by Wyman Guin
- The Green Magician - (1954) - novella by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
- Our Fair City - (1949) - short story by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Man Who Could Not See Devils - (1970) - short story by Joanna Russ
- A New Arabian Night's Entertainment - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- The King and His Three Daughters - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- The Dice-Box: A Fairy Tale - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- The Peach in Brandy: A Milesian Tale - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- Mi Li: A Chinese Fairy Tale - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- A True Love Story - (1785) - short story by Horace Walpole
- The Bird's Nest - (1967) - short story by Horace Walpole
- Bird of Prey - (1941) - short story by John Collier
- The Detective of Dreams - (1980) - short story by Gene Wolfe
- The Bee-Man of Orn - (1887) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
- The Red Hawk - (1983) - novelette by Elizabeth A. Lynn
- The Canvasser's Tale - (1876) - short story by Mark Twain
- The Silken-Swift... - (1953) - novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
- The New Mother - (1882) - short story by Lucy Clifford
- Mr. Lupescu - (1945) - short story by Anthony Boucher
- The King of the Cats - (1929) - short story by Stephen Vincent Benét
- Uncle Einar - (1947) - short story by Ray Bradbury
- Space-Time for Springers - (1958) - short story by Fritz Leiber
- Great is Diana - (1958) - short story by Avram Davidson
- The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story - (1856) - novella by Christopher Pearse Cranch
- Tobermory - (1909) - short story by Saki
- The King of the Elves - (1953) - novelette by Philip K. Dick
- The Glass Dog - (1901) - short story by L. Frank Baum
- The Queen of Quok - (1901) - short story by L. Frank Baum
- The Magic Bonbons - (1901) - short story by L. Frank Baum
- The Dummy That Lived - (1901) - short story by L. Frank Baum
- The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers - (1979) - novelette by Samuel R. Delany
- from Phantasmion - (1837) - short story by Sara Coleridge
- The Sapphire Necklace - (1930) - short story by Kenneth Morris
- The Regent of the North - (1915) - short story by Kenneth Morris
- The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story - (1915) - short story by Kenneth Morris
- Elric at the End of Time - (1981) - novelette by Michael Moorcock
- Lindenborg Pool - (1856) - short story by William Morris
- The Moon Pool - (1918) - novella by A. Merritt
- The Sword of Welleran - (1908) - short story by Lord Dunsany
- Operation Afreet - (1956) - novelette by Poul Anderson
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