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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, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985.

Italo Calvino

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