{"product_id":"the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy-isbn-9780525435563","title":"The Big Book of Classic Fantasy","description":"\u003cb\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE 2020 WORLD FANTASY AWARD • Unearth the enchanting origins of fantasy fiction with a collection of tales as vast as the tallest tower and as mysterious as the dark depths of the forest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fantasy stories have always been with us. They illuminate the odd and the uncanny, the wondrous and the fantastic: all the things we know are lurking just out of sight—on the other side of the looking-glass, beyond the music of the impossibly haunting violin, through the twisted trees of the ancient woods. Other worlds, talking animals, fairies, goblins, demons, tricksters, and mystics: these are the elements that populate a rich literary tradition that spans the globe. A work composed both of careful scholarship and fantastic fun, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Book of Classic Fantasy \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for anyone who’s never forgotten the stories that first inspired feelings of astonishment and wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INCLUDING:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *Stories by pillars of the genre like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, L. Frank Baum, Robert E. Howard, and J. R. R. Tolkien\u003cbr\u003e *Fantastical offerings from literary giants including Edith Wharton, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston, Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, and W.E.B. Du Bois\u003cbr\u003e *Rare treasures from Asian, Eastern European, Scandinavian, and Native American traditions\u003cbr\u003e *New translations, including fourteen stories never before in English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PLUS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e *Beautifully Bizarre Creatures! *Strange New Worlds Just Beyond the Garden Path!\u003cbr\u003e *Fairy Folk and Their Dark Mischief! *Seriously Be Careful—Do Not Trust Those Fairies!\u003ci\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE QUEEN’S SON\u003cbr\u003e Bettina von Arnim \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e HANS-MY-HEDGEHOG\u003cbr\u003e Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE STORY OF THE HARD NUT\u003cbr\u003e E. T. A. Hoffmann \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e RIP VAN WINKLE\u003cbr\u003e Washington Irving\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE LUCK OF THE BEAN-ROWS\u003cbr\u003e Charles Nodier\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e TRANSFORMATION\u003cbr\u003e Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE NEST OF NIGHTINGALES\u003cbr\u003e Théophile Gautier\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE FAIRYTALE ABOUT A DEAD BODY, BELONGING TO NO ONE KNOWS WHOM\u003cbr\u003e Vladimir Odoevsky \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE STORY OF THE GOBLINS WHO STOLE A SEXTON\u003cbr\u003e Charles Dickens \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE NOSE\u003cbr\u003e Nikolai Gogol \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR\u003cbr\u003e Edgar Allan Poe \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE STORY OF JEON UNCHI\u003cbr\u003e Anonymous \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FEATHERTOP: A MORALIZED LEGEND\u003cbr\u003e Nathaniel Hawthorne \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MASTER ZACHARIUS\u003cbr\u003e Jules Verne \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE FROST-KING: OR, THE POWER OF LOVE\u003cbr\u003e Louisa May Alcott \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE TARTARUS OF MAIDS\u003cbr\u003e Herman Melville \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE MAGIC MIRROR\u003cbr\u003e George MacDonald \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE DIAMOND LENS\u003cbr\u003e Fitz-James O’Brien \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GOBLIN MARKET\u003cbr\u003e Christina Rossetti \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE WILL-O’-THE-WISPS ARE IN TOWN\u003cbr\u003e Hans Christian Andersen \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE LEGEND OF THE PALE MAIDEN\u003cbr\u003e Aleksis Kivi \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE\u003cbr\u003e Lewis Carroll \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FURNICA, OR THE QUEEN OF THE ANTS\u003cbr\u003e Carmen Sylva \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL\u003cbr\u003e Leo Tolstoy \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE\u003cbr\u003e Charles W. Chestnutt \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE BEE-MAN OF ORN\u003cbr\u003e Frank R. Stockton \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE REMARKABLE ROCKET\u003cbr\u003e Oscar Wilde \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE ENSOULED VIOLIN\u003cbr\u003e H. P. Blavatskaya\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE DEATH OF ODJIGH\u003cbr\u003e Marcel Schwob \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE TERRESTRIAL FIRE\u003cbr\u003e Marcel Schwob \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE KINGDOM OF CARDS\u003cbr\u003e Rabindranath Tagore \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE OTHER SIDE: A BRETON LEGEND\u003cbr\u003e Count Eric Stanlislaus Stenbock\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE FULNESS OF LIFE\u003cbr\u003e Edith Wharton \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PRINCE ALBERIC AND THE SNAKE LADY\u003cbr\u003e Vernon Lee \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE LITTLE ROOM\u003cbr\u003e Madeline Yale Wynne \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE PLATTNER STORY\u003cbr\u003e H. G. Wells \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE PRINCESS BALADINA—HER ADVENTURE\u003cbr\u003e Willa Cather \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE RELUCTANT DRAGON\u003cbr\u003e Kenneth Grahame \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e IKTOMI TALES\u003cbr\u003e Zitkala-Ša \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MARIONETTES\u003cbr\u003e Louis Fréchette \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e DANCE OF THE COMETS: AN ASTRAL PANTOMIME IN TWO ACTS\u003cbr\u003e Paul Scheerbart \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE WHITE PEOPLE\u003cbr\u003e Arthur Machen \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BLAMOL\u003cbr\u003e Gustav Meyrink \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GOBLINS: A LOGGING CAMP STORY\u003cbr\u003e Louis Fréchette \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e SOWBREAD\u003cbr\u003e Grazia Deledda \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE ANGRY STREET\u003cbr\u003e G. K. Chesterton \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE AUNT AND AMABEL\u003cbr\u003e E. Nesbit \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e SACRIFICE\u003cbr\u003e Aleksey Remizov \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE PRINCESS STEEL\u003cbr\u003e W. E. B. Du Bois \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE HUMP\u003cbr\u003e Fernán Caballero \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS\u003cbr\u003e E. M. Forster \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BABIES\u003cbr\u003e E. Pauline Johnson \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE LAST REDOUBT\u003cbr\u003e William Hope Hodgson \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e JACK PUMPKINHEAD AND THE SAWHORSE\u003cbr\u003e L. Frank Baum \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE PLANT MEN\u003cbr\u003e Edgar Rice Burroughs \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR\u003cbr\u003e Hermann Hesse \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE METAMORPHOSIS\u003cbr\u003e Franz Kafka \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE HOARD OF THE GIBBELINS\u003cbr\u003e Lord Dunsany \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THROUGH THE DRAGON GLASS\u003cbr\u003e A. Merritt \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e DAVID BLAIZE AND THE BLUE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e E. F. Benson \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE BIG BESTIARY OF MODERN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e Franz Blei \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE ALLIGATOR WAR\u003cbr\u003e Horacio Quiroga \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FRIEND ISLAND\u003cbr\u003e Francis Stevens \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MAGIC COMES TO A COMMITTEE\u003cbr\u003e Stella Benson \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GRAMOPHONE OF THE AGES\u003cbr\u003e Yefim Zozulya \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e JOIWIND\u003cbr\u003e David Lindsay \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e SOUND IN THE MOUNTAIN\u003cbr\u003e Maurice Renard \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e SENNIN\u003cbr\u003e Ryūnosuke Akutagawa \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e KOSHTRA PIVRARCHA\u003cbr\u003e E. R. Eddison \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e AT THE BORDER\u003cbr\u003e Der Nister \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE MARVELOUS EXPLOITS OF PAUL BUNYAN\u003cbr\u003e W. B. Laughead \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e TALKATIVE DOMOVOI\u003cbr\u003e Aleksandr Grin \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE RATCATCHER\u003cbr\u003e Aleksandr Grin \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE SHADOW KINGDOM\u003cbr\u003e Robert E. Howard \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE MAN TRAVELING WITH THE BROCADE PORTRAIT\u003cbr\u003e Edogawa Ranpo \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A VISIT TO THE MUSEUM\u003cbr\u003e Vladimir Nabokov \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE WATER SPRITE’S TALE\u003cbr\u003e Karel Čapek \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE CAPITAL OF CAT COUNTRY\u003cbr\u003e Lao She \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e COYOTE STORIES\u003cbr\u003e Mourning Dove \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e UNCLE MONDAY\u003cbr\u003e Zora Neale Hurston\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ROSE-COLD, MOON SKATER\u003cbr\u003e María Teresa León\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e A NIGHT OF THE HIGH SEASON\u003cbr\u003e Bruno Schulz\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN\u003cbr\u003e Fernand Dumont \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE TOWN OF CATS\u003cbr\u003e Hagiwara Sakutarō \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE DEBUTANTE\u003cbr\u003e Leonora Carrington \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE JEWELS IN THE FOREST\u003cbr\u003e Fritz Leiber \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e EVENING PRIMROSE\u003cbr\u003e John Collier \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE COMING OF THE WHITE WORM\u003cbr\u003e Clark Ashton Smith \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e THE MAN WHO COULD WALK THROUGH WALLS\u003cbr\u003e Marcel Aymé \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LEAF BY NIGGLE\u003cbr\u003e J. R. R. Tolkien \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003c\/i\u003e“The VanderMeers have compiled an eminently readable collection of stories from authors around the world, seeking to introduce fantasy lovers to many rarely seen and underappreciated gems while still including a handful of more well-known authors to balance the mix. . . . This quintessential anthology is destined to become the standard by which future fantasy classic anthologies are measured. . . . [A] must-have anthology.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, “SF\/F\/H Novels, Short Stories, and Sequels to Look for in July”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The VanderMeers bring to fantasy the same monumental efforts at curation and translation that brought about the massive, absolutely essential 2016 anthology \u003ci\u003eThe Big Book of Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [This] collection traces the development of an entire genre and places it into glorious context.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Invaluable. . . . Varied and textured examples of fantasy in literature that readers and students may not have been exposed to previously.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An impressive cross-section of early fantasy in this fascinating anthology of 90 stories. . . . This sweeping panorama of fantasy is a must-have for those interested in the roots of modern fantasy, and it gives a welcome introduction to many unexpected delights.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dozens upon dozens of seminal fantasy stories, some well-known and others delightfully rescued from obscurity. . . . Like its SF counterpart, this dense and exhaustive collection would serve as an admirable survey course for the genre.”\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eANN VANDERMEER currently serves as an acquiring editor for Tor.com and \u003ci\u003eWeird Fiction Review\u003c\/i\u003e and is the editor-in-residence for Shared Worlds. She was the editor-in-chief for \u003ci\u003eWeird Tales\u003c\/i\u003e for five years, work for which she won a Hugo Award. She also has won a World Fantasy Award and a British Fantasy Award for coediting \u003ci\u003eThe Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJEFF VANDERMEER is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy, the first novel of which, \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Shirley Jackson Award and was made into a film by Paramount Pictures. His recent novel \u003ci\u003eBorne\u003c\/i\u003e has been selected for the NEA Big Reads program and was a finalist for the Arthur C. 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