Black Water The Book of Fantastic Literature, Alberto Manguel (Editor). (Paperback 0517552698)

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Black Water The Book of Fantastic Literature
Author: Alberto Manguel (Editor)

Anthology of 72 stories and excerpts, from "literary" fantasists, including Bradbury and Le Guin as well as Poe, Kafka, Calvino, Howard Fast, Brian Moore, Alex Comfort and many others. Manguel explains in his introduction that "fantastic literature" makes use of the everyday world as a facade through which the undefinab... more »le appears, hinting at the half-forgotten dreams of the imagination. This collection includes material from Kafka, Henry James, E.M. Forster and Herman Hesse.

Contents:

Foreword · by Alberto Manguel;
House Taken Over / Julio Cortázar (1967);
How Love Came to Professor Guildea ["The Man Who Was Beloved"] / Robert S. Hichens (1897):
Climax for a Ghost Story / I. A. Ireland (1919);
The Mysteries of the Joy Rio / Tennessee Williams (1954);
Pomegranate Seed / Edith Wharton (1931)
Venetian Masks / Adolfo Bioy Casares [trans. by Alberto Manguel];
The Wish House / Rudyard Kipling (1924)
The Playground / Ray Bradbury (1953)
Importance / Manuel Mujica Lainez (1978);
Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm (1916);
A Visitor from Down Under / L. P. Hartley (1926);
Laura / Saki (1914);
An Injustice Revealed / Anon;
A Little Place Off the Edgware Road / Graham Greene (1947);
From "A School Story" / M. R. James (1911);
The Signalman / Charles Dickens (1866);
The Tall Woman / Pedro Antonio de Alarcón;
A Scent of Mimosa / Francis King (1975);
Death and the Gardener [from Le Grand Ecart] / Jean Cocteau (1923);
Lord Mountdrago ["Doctor and Patient"] / W. Somerset Maugham (1939);
The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit . Giovanni Papini (1956);
The Storm ["Frritt-Flacc"] / Jules Verne (1884);
A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) / Anon;
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar / Edgar Allan Poe (1845);
Split Second / Daphne du Maurier (1952);
August 25, 1983 / Jorge Luís Borges (1982);
How Wang-Fo Was Saved / Marguerite Yourcenar (1963);
From "Peter and Rosa" / Isak Dinesen (1942);
Tattoo / Junichiro Tanizaki (1910);
John Duffy’s Brother / Flann O'Brien (1941);
Lady into Fox / David Garnett (1923);
Father’s Last Escape / Bruno Schulz (1937);
A Man by the Name of Ziegler / Hermann Hesse (1954);
The Argentine Ant / Italo Calvino (1952) [trans. by Archibald Colquhoun];
The Lady on the Grey / John Collier (1951);
The Queen of Spades / Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin (1834) trans. by Rosemary Edmonds;
Of a Promise Kept / Lafcadio Hearn (1901);
The Wizard Postponed [from The Book of Examples of Count Lucanor, adapt. 1935] / Juan Manuel, Jorge Luís Borges, adapt.(1973) [trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni];
The Monkey’s Paw / W. W. Jacobs (1902);
The Bottle Imp / Robert Louis Stevenson (1891);
The Rocking-Horse Winner / D. H. Lawrence (1926);
Certain Distant Suns / Joanne Greenburg (1979);
The Third Bank of the River / João Guimarães Rosa (1967);
Home / Hilaire Belloc;
The Door in the Wall / H. G. Wells (1906);
The Friends / Silvina Ocampo (1982);
Et in Sempiternum Pereant / Charles Williams (1935);
The Captives of Longjumeau / Léon Bloy (1967);
The Visit to the Museum / Vladimir Nabokov (1958);
"Autumn Mountain" / Ryunosuke Akutagawa;
The Sight / Brian Moore (1977);
Clorinda / André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1979);
The Pagan Rabbi / Cynthia Ozick (1966);
The Fisherman and His Soul / Oscar Wilde (1891);
The Bureau d’Echange de Maux / Lord Dunsany (1915);
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin (1973);
In the Penal Colony / Franz Kafka (1919);
A Dog in Durer’s Etching "The Knight, Death and The Devil" / Marco Denevi (1968);
The Large Ant / Howard Fast (1960);
The Lemmings / Alex Comfort;
The Grey Ones / J. B. Priestley (1953);
The Feather Pillow / Horacio Quiroga (1907);
Seaton’s Aunt / Walter de la Mare (1922);
The Friends of the Friends ["The Way It Came"] / Henry James (1896);
The Travelling Companion / Hans Christian Andersen (1835);
The Curfew Tolls / Stephen Vincent Benét (1935);
The State of Grace / Marcel Aymé (1947);
The Story of a Panic / E. M. Forster (1904);
An Invitation to the Hunt / George Hitchcock (1960);
From the "American Notebooks" / Nathaniel Hawthorne (1868);
The Dream / O. Henry;
The Authors · Misc.

ISBN-13: 9780517552698
ISBN-10: 0517552698
Publication Date: 12/13/1984
Pages: 967
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