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Fantastic tales / edited by Dale L. Walker ; foreward by Philip José Farmer.
LIBRA - Special PS3523.O46 C87 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- London, Jack, 1876-1916.
- Standardized Title:
- Curious fragments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction, American.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 223 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First Bison Books print.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1998.
- Summary:
- Jack London's fabled powers to entertain and enthrall are in full evidence in this collection of 15 fantastic tales. The restless energy of London's vision ranges far in time and space, from the tall tale of a frontier trapper hunting a mammoth to an extraterrestrial encounter to new worlds of the future (our present?) wherein the world is ravaged by an alien virus.
- Contents:
- Who believes in ghosts!
- A thousand deaths
- The rejuvenation of Major Rathbone
- Even unto death
- A relic of the Pliocene
- The shadow and the flash
- The enemy of all the world
- A curious fragment
- Goliah
- The unparalleled invasion
- When the world was young
- The strength of the strong
- War
- The scarlet plague
- The red one.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Curious fragments. 1975.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 222).
- ISBN:
- 9780803279797
- 0803279795
- OCLC:
- 45196929
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