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Fantastic worlds : myths, t...
Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder
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monografia Rebiun22896476 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun22896476 m o d cr cn||||||||| 810128s1979 nyua ob 001 0 eng d 78011482 252583856 437173128 455966836 475468028 476007267 488436266 614953434 629768924 647574201 654736952 655816616 722505851 756881202 814458360 819510730 821691996 888458305 935260413 961590160 962661700 988441944 992048520 994785653 1034682786 1035661100 1037725509 1038639951 1044187044 1044565893 1045530928 1058621305 1059561999 1059780651 1060767505 1064089842 1078047349 1081202367 1097124163 1097276231 1099555576 9780198020240 electronic bk.) 0198020244 electronic bk.) 1280522844 9781280522840 9786610522842 6610522847 0195025423 0195025415 pbk.) 9780195025422 9780195025415 pbk.) MYILIB_CUp COO eng pn COO OCLCQ MT4IT OCLCE N$T OCLCQ DKDLA ADU E7B OCLCQ IDEBK OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCQ MERUC EBLCP OCLCQ AZK COCUF AGLDB MOR PIFBR ZCU OTZ OCLCQ U3W INARC STF WRM OCLCQ VTS CEF ICG NRAMU VT2 OCLCQ LHU FVL WYU YOU CANPU TKN DKC AU@ OCLCQ OCLCO CNTRU FIC 003000 bisacsh CSB bicssc Fantastic worlds myths, tales, and stories edited and with commentaries by Eric S. Rabkin New York Oxford University Press 1979 New York New York Oxford University Press 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xvii, 478 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction -- The sources of the fantastic -- Genesis (KJV) -- The Blackfoot Genesis / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The eye of the giant / Ada Cardinall, ed. -- How I brought death into the world / Amos Tutuola -- The myth of Actaeon ; The myth of Narcissus ; The myth of Philomela / Ovid -- The ghost wife / George Bird Grinnell, ed. -- The magic swan geese / Alexandr Afanas'ev, ed. -- Why tortoise's shell is not smooth / Chinua Achebe -- How Mr. Rabbit was too sharp for Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris -- Paul Bunyan on the Columbia / Esther Shephard -- Little Red-cap ; The sleeping beauty ; Hansel and Grethel / Jakob Grimm ; Wilhelm Grimm -- The tinderbox / Hans Christian Andersen -- The tale of Cosmo / George MacDonald -- Leaf by Niggle / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The diversity of fantastic literature --Our ideas of time / Joseph Addison -- Ritter Gluck / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The oval portrait / Edgar Allan Poe -- The garden of live flowers / Lewis Carroll -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The royal banquet / Norton Juster -- The sandman / E.T.A. Hoffmann -- The black cat / Edgar Allan Poe -- The picture in the house / H.P. Lovecraft -- The hand / Joseph Sheridan LeFanu -- The moonlit road / Ambrose Bierce -- Lost hearts / M.R. James -- Golden wings / William Morris -- The sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany -- The five black swans / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The facts in the case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The star / H.G. Wells -- EPICAC / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The third level / Jack Finney -- The star / Arthur C. Clarke -- The judgment ; A common confusion / Franz Kafka -- Cockroaches / Bruno Schulz -- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote / Jorge Luis Borges -- Axolotl / Julio Cortázar -- Pastoral / Tommaso Landolfi -- All at one point / Italo Calvino -- There is no such place as America / Peter Bichsel -- The piano player / Donald Barthelme -- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA / Richard Brautigan -- The marker / Robert Coover -- The zebra storyteller / Spencer Holst Covers fantastic narrative from ancient myths to modern science fiction in more than fifty tales which represent man's imagination in etiology, entertainment, and wonder Fantasy literature Literature Littérature fantastique- Anthologies FICTION- Anthologies (multiple authors) Fantasy literature. Literature. Fantastic fiction. Short stories. Fantasy stories, to 1978 Anthologies. English texts Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. Fantasy fiction. Electronic books Electronic book Rabkin, Eric S. Print version Fantastic worlds. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979 (DLC) 78011482 OUP E-Books