The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy
Author : Brian M. Stableford
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
Author : Margaret Jull Costa
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
A collection of Spanish fantasy fiction, including tales of ghosts, fabulous creatures, time travel, and metamorphoses.
The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy
Author : Richard Huijing
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese. The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years.
The Dedalus Book of Portuguese Fantasy
Author : Eugénio Lisboa
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fantasy fiction, Portuguese
ISBN : 9780781803861
Book Description
The Dedalus Book of Finnish Fantasy
Author : Johanna Sinisalo
Publisher : European Literary Fantasy Anthologies
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The latest volume in the Dedalus European fantasy series, this anthology of short stories includes a wide range of texts covering the period from nineteenth century until today. The richness and diversity of the stories reflects the long tradition of fantasy in Finnish literature, ranging from the classics to experimental literature, from satire to horror. This is the first collection of Finnish short stories of its kind and almost all are translated into English for the first time.
The Dedalus Book of Flemish Fantasy
Author : Eric Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fantasy fiction, Flemish
ISBN : 9781903517932
Book Description
This is the eighth volume in Dedalus's highly acclaimed European literary fantasy series and follows volumes from Austrian, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. During the nineteenth-century, Belgian literature was still largely written in the language of education, French. Then the Flemings, who inhabit the northern half of Belgium, became aware of the value of their own language, whose standardised form is, to all intents and purposes, Dutch. Modern Flemish literature was born. This anthology incorporates fantasy stories from the early twentieth century to the present day. The types of fantasy are various: horror, mysticism and magical realism being the dominant ones. One of the early authors is Felix Timmermans who started out with horror stories, but later ended up writing his inimitable Vitalist novels. Two magic realist authors stand out: Johan Daisne and Hubert Lampo. And horror is well represented by several authors including Hugo Claus, Hugo Raes and Ward Ruyslinck - all household names in Flanders. Interesting new authors include Annelies Verbeke and Peter Verhelst.
The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy
Author : Wiesiek Powaga
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN :
Book Description
Poland's strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural. The Devil is a popular figure in Polish fantastic fiction, and we see him in many different roles and guises: from the personification of pure malice to a pitiful, unfortunate individual and even a patriotic hero. The Dedalus Book of Polish Fantasy offers the best of this tradition from the Romantics to the new generation of authors writing in post-communist Poland.
The Weird
Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 2482 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466803193
Book Description
From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Riddley Walker
Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,42 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408832240
Book Description
‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.
The Look of the Book
Author : Peter Mendelsund
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 0399581022
Book Description
Why do some book covers instantly grab your attention, while others never get a second glance? Fusing word and image, as well as design thinking and literary criticism, this captivating investigation goes behind the scenes of the cover design process to answer this question and more. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW As the outward face of the text, the book cover makes an all-important first impression. The Look of the Book examines art at the edges of literature through notable covers and the stories behind them, galleries of the many different jackets of bestselling books, an overview of book cover trends throughout history, and insights from dozens of literary and design luminaries. Co-authored by celebrated designer and creative director Peter Mendelsund and scholar David Alworth, this fascinating collaboration, featuring hundreds of covers, challenges our notions of what a book cover can and should be.
