Fantastic Tales：Visionary And Everyday

作者 Italo Calvino
出版社 Penguin
出版时间 2009年5月第1版
ISBN 9780141190129

内容简介

Fromfabulousenchantmentsandsupernaturalhorrorstosubtler,morepsychologicalterrors,thebestofnineteenth-centuryfantasticliteratureiscollectedherebyItaloCalvino.ThesemysteriousandmacabretalesincludeHoffmann'snightmarish"TheSandman",Poe'sterrifying"TheTell-TaleHeart"andDickens'chillingghoststory"TheSignal-Man",andrelativelyunknownworksfromcelebratedwritersincludingHonoredeBalzac,HenryJames,SirWalterScott,GuydeMaupassantandRobertLouisStevenson,alongsidelesser-knowncontributors.EachstorycomeswithafascinatingintroductionbyCalvino.

作者简介

ItaloCalvino,oneofItaly'sfinestpostwarwriters,hasdelightedreadersaroundtheworldwithhisdeceptivelysimple,fable-likestories.HewasborninCubain1923andraisedinSanRemo,Italy;hefoughtfortheItalianResistancefrom1943-45.HismajorworksincludeCosmicomics(1968),InvisibleCities(1972),andIfonawinter'snightatraveler(1979).HediedinSienain1985.

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