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Fantastic Tales

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141190129

  • Length: 608  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 439g

  • RRP: £12.99

Fantastic Tales

From fabulous enchantments and supernatural horrors to subtler, more psychological terrors, the best of nineteenth-century fantastic literature is collected here by Italo Calvino. These mysterious and macabre tales include Hoffmann's nightmarish 'The Sandman', Poe's terrifying 'The Tell-Tale Heart' and Dickens's chilling ghost story 'The Signal-Man', and relatively unknown works from celebrated writers including Honoré de Balzac, Henry James, Sir Walter Scott, Guy de Maupassant and Robert Louis Stevenson, alongside lesser-known contributors. Each story comes with a fascinating introduction by Calvino.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141190129

  • Length: 608  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 439g

  • RRP: £12.99

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About the Author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

Italo Calvino

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