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Masterpieces of fantasy and wonder / compiled by David G. Hartwell with the assistance of Kathryn Cramer.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Masterpieces of fantasy & wonder
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Guild America books
- Guild America Books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fantasy literature--19th century.
- Fantasy literature.
- Fantasy literature--20th century.
- Genre:
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 656 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday Book & Music Clubs, Inc., 1989.
- Contents:
- INTRODUCTION: "Worlds of wonder, worlds of difference
- ENCHANTMENTS: Green is the color / John M. Ford
- Wooden Tony / Lucy Clifford
- Lest levitation come upon us / Suzette Haden Elgin
- Prince Bull / Charles Dickens
- The triumph of vice / W.S. Gilbert
- Turandina / Fyodor Sologub
- Princess and the frog / Robin McKinkey
- Darkness box / Ursula K. LeGuin
- Jack and the beanstalk / Osbert Sitwell
- Peter Pan ; The thrush's nest ; Lock-out time / J.M. Barrie
- The mouse festival / Johannes Bobrowski
- A proper Santa Claus / Anne McCaffrey
- Inside out / Rudy Rucker
- Facts concerning the recent carnival of crime / Mark Twain
- Woman who thought she could read / Avram Davidson
- The third level / Jack Finney
- CREATURES:
- Griffin and the minor canon / Frank R. Stockton
- Man who sold rope to the gnoles / Margaret St. Clair
- The dragons / Murilo Rubaio
- On the downhill side / Harlan Ellison
- The parrot / Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Gray wolf / George MacDonald
- The harrowing of the dragon of Hoarsbreath / Patricia A. McKillip
- The last of the dragons / Edith Nesbit
- Lila the werewolf / Peter S. Beagle
- The drowned giant / J.G. Ballard
- WORLDS: Enchanted buffalo / L. Frank Baum
- Narrow valley / R.A. Lafferty
- Beyond the dead reef / James Tiptree, Jr.
- King's bride / E.T.A. Hoffmann
- Under the garden / Graham Greene
- ADVENTURES: Things that are gods / John Brunner
- The King of Nodland and his dwarf / Fitz-James O'Brien
- The seventeen virgins; The bagful of dreams / Jack Vance
- The hollow land / William Morris.
- Notes:
- Title page, part title decoration, and jacket by Thomas Canty.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 276710
- OCLC:
- 20567193
- Publisher Number:
- 14784 Science Fiction Book Club
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