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A Treasury of Fantasy: Heroic Adventures in Imaginary Lands
Alternate Title: | The Mammoth Book of Classic Fantasy |
Author: | Cary Wilkins |
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Robinson, 1987 Avenel Books, 1981 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Fantasy |
Sub-Genre Tags: | Heroic Fantasy High Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Stories and Novels by the Greatest Authors of the Genre including Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft and George MacDonald.
Table of Contents:
- Foreword - essay by Cary Wilkins
- The Story of Sigurd - short story by unknown
- The Quest of the Holy Graal - short story by Leonora Lang [as by Mrs. Andrew Lang]
- The Enchantment of Lionarda [Amadis de Gaula] (1567) - short story by Francisco de Moraes
- The Elves (1977) - novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Die Elfen 1812) [as by Johann Ludwig Tieck]
- The King of the Golden River, or The Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria (1851) - novelette by John Ruskin (variant of The King of the Golden River 1841)
- Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women [Phantastes] (1858) - novel by George MacDonald
- The Wood Beyond the World (1894) - novel by William Morris
- The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) - novel by Lord Dunsany
- The Doom That Came to Sarnath [Dream Cycle] (1920) - short story by H. P. Lovecraft
- Swords of the Purple Kingdom [Kull of Valusia] (1967) - novelette by Robert E. Howard
- The Rule of Names [Earthsea Cycle] (1964) - short story by Ursula K. Le Guin
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