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A compilation of thirty-eight unique tales of magic and fantasy by such authors as William Morris, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Mark Twain.

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Language
English
Pages
656

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Garden City, N.Y

Table of Contents

Rule of names / Ursula K. Le Guin
Magic fishbone / Charles Dickens
Goddess on the street corner / Margaret St. Clair
Feathertop: a moralized lesson / Nathaniel Hawthorne
Root and the ring / Wyman Guin
Green magician / L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt
Our fair city / Robert A. Heinlein
Man who could not see devils / Joanna Russ
Hieroglyphic tales: New Arabian night's entertainment ; King and his three daughters ; Dice-box, a fairy tale ; Peach in brandy, a Milesian tale ; True love story ; Bird's nest / Horace Walpole
Birds of prey / John Collier
Detective of dreams / Gene Wolfe
Bee-man of Orn / Frank R. Stockton
Red hawk / Elizabeth A. Lynn
Canvasser's tale / Mark Twain
Silken-swift / Theodore Sturgeon
New mother / Lucy Clifford
Mr. Lupescu / Anthony Boucher
King of the cats / Stephen Vincent Benet
Uncle Einar / Ray Bradbury
Space-time for springers / Fritz Leiber
Great is Diana / Avram Davidson
Last of the huggermuggers: a giant story / Christopher P. Cranch
Tobermory / Saki
King of the elves / Philip K. Dick
American fairy tales: Glass dog ; Queen of Quok ; Magic bonbons ; Dummy that lived / L. Frank Baum
Tale of the dragons and dreamers / Samuel R. Delany
(from) Phantasmion / Sara Coleridge
Tales: Sapphire necklace ; Regent of the north ; Eyeless dragons: a Chinese story / Kenneth Morris
Elric at the end of time / Michael Moorcock
Lindenborg pool / William Morris
Moon pool / A. Merritt
Sword of Welleran / Lord Dunsany
Operation Afreet / Poul Anderson.

Edition Notes

Jacket by Thomas Canty.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.838766
Library of Congress
PN6120.95.F25 M3 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 656 pages
Number of pages
656

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32124175M
Internet Archive
masterpiecesoffa0000unse
ISBN 10
1568650396
ISBN 13
9781568650395
OCLC/WorldCat
54786784

Work Description

A rich & varied collection of the best short fantasy fiction of the last two centuries. Escape into the fantastic worlds of Charles Dickens, J.M. Barrie, Graham Greene, Harlan Ellison, and others found in these 38 magical tales.

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