Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
Eric S. Rabkin
Jun 1979 · Oxford University Press
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As the first international anthology to cover the entire scope of fantastic narrative, Fantastic Worlds presents over fifty tales, myths, and stories, ranging from Genesis to Ovid, Hans Christian Andersen to J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allan Poe to James Thurber, and Franz Kafka to Italo Calvino. Including tales of fairies and elves, ghost stories, high fantasy, and stories of social criticism and the conflict between science and religion, this volume presents a diverse selection of writings that all share the same capacity to liberate the human spirit through the wild mental acrobatics of fantasy.
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Elaina Daley
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February 15, 2015
"Finally this fantasy is much more for adults; it is a fantasy that panders to the childhood fantasies still in us and then confirms the adult fantasy that the stable world that we have bought was worth the price of our youth. That price, mortality, is a terrible one."
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