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Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
Author: | David G. Hartwell Kathryn Cramer |
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Science Fiction Book Club, 1989 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
The editor of Foundations of Fear compiles thirty-eight unique tales of magic and fantasy by such authors as William Morris, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mark Twain.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Worlds of Wonder, Worlds of Difference (Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder) (1989) - essay by David G. Hartwell
- Green Is the Color [Liavek] (1987) - novella by John M. Ford
- Wooden Tony (1892) - short story by Lucy Clifford
- Lest Levitation Come Upon Us (1982) - novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
- Prince Bull: A Fairy Tale (1855) - short story by Charles Dickens
- The Triumph of Vice: A Fairy Tale (1867) - short story by W. S. Gilbert
- Turandina (1989) - short story by Fyodor Sologub (translation of ????????? 1912)
- The Princess and the Frog (1981) - short story by Robin McKinley
- Darkness Box (1963) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1959) - short story by Osbert Sitwell
- Peter Pan [Peter Pan] (1902) - short fiction by J. M. Barrie
- The Thrush's Nest [Peter Pan] (1902) - short fiction by J. M. Barrie
- Lock-out Time [Peter Pan] (1902) - short fiction by J. M. Barrie
- The Mouse Festival (1989) - short story by Johannes Bobrowski (translation of Mäusefest 1965)
- A Proper Santa Claus (1973) - short story by Anne McCaffrey
- Inside Out (1987) - novelette by Rudy Rucker
- The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (1876) - short story by Mark Twain
- The Woman Who Thought She Could Read (1959) - short story by Avram Davidson
- The Third Level (1950) - short story by Jack Finney
- The Griffin and the Minor Canon (1885) - short story by Frank R. Stockton
- The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles (1951) - short story by Margaret St. Clair
- The Dragons (1965) - short story by Murilo Rubião (translation of Os dragões unknown)
- On the Downhill Side (1972) - short story by Harlan Ellison
- The Parrot (1966) - short story by Isaac Bashevis Singer (translation of Der popugay 1965)
- The Gray Wolf (1864) - short story by George MacDonald
- The Harrowing of the Dragon of Hoarsbreath (1982) - novelette by Patricia A. McKillip
- The Last of the Dragons juvenile (1899) - short story by Edith Nesbit
- Lila the Werewolf [Sam Farrell] (1969) - novelette by Peter S. Beagle
- The Drowned Giant (1964) - short story by J. G. Ballard
- The Enchanted Buffalo [Animal Fairy Tales] (1905) - short story by L. Frank Baum
- Narrow Valley (1966) - short story by R. A. Lafferty
- Beyond the Dead Reef [Quintana Roo] (1983) - short story by James Tiptree, Jr.
- The King's Bride: A Fairy Tale After Nature (1963) - novella by E. T. A. Hoffmann (translation of Die Königsbraut 1819)
- Under the Garden (1963) - novella by Graham Greene
- The Things That Are Gods [Traveller in Black] (1979) - novelette by John Brunner
- The King of Nodland and His Dwarf (1852) - novelette by Fitz-James O'Brien
- The Seventeen Virgins [Dying Earth] (1974) - novelette by Jack Vance
- The Bagful of Dreams [Dying Earth] (1977) - novelette by Jack Vance
- The Hollow Land (1856) - novelette by William Morris
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