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Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment

by David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor)

Other authors: Poul Anderson (Contributor), L. Frank Baum (Contributor), Stephen Vincent Benét (Contributor), Anthony Boucher (Contributor), Ray Bradbury (Contributor)30 more, Thomas Canty (Cover artist), Lucy Clifford (Contributor), Sara Coleridge (Contributor), John Collier (Contributor), Christopher Pearse Cranch (Contributor), Avram Davidson (Contributor), L. Sprague De Camp (Contributor), Samuel R. Delany (Contributor), Philip K. Dick (Contributor), Charles Dickens (Contributor), Lord Dunsany (Contributor), Wyman Guin (Contributor), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Contributor), Robert A. Heinlein (Contributor), Ursula K. Le Guin (Contributor), Fritz Leiber (Contributor), Elizabeth A. Lynn (Contributor), Abraham Merritt (Contributor), Michael Moorcock (Contributor), Kenneth Morris (Contributor), William Morris (Contributor), Fletcher Pratt (Contributor), Joanna Russ (Contributor), Saki (Contributor), Margaret St. Clair (Contributor), Frank R. Stockton (Contributor), Theodore Sturgeon (Contributor), Mark Twain (Contributor), Horace Walpole (Contributor), Gene Wolfe (Contributor)

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The stories (some excerpted from longer works) were not all to my taste, but all were of good to excellent quality. Some were already known to me, but most were not. The editor includes notes for each.
(Imrahill2001's review has a complete list of titles.)

Authors (I give titles only for my particular favorites, X for those I really did not like; the rest were all okay):
LeGuin; Dickens - The Magic Fishbone (a classic, bordering on both reality & fairy-tales); St.Clair; Hawthorne - Feathertop: A Moralized Legend; Guin; deCamp & Pratt; Heinlein - Our Fair City; Russ; Walpole - Hieroglyphic Tales (7 very short stories); Collier; Wolfe; Stockton - The Bee Man of Orn (a true classic); Lynn; Twain-The Canvasser's Tale (an American tall-tale, fantastical & humorous); Sturgeon; Clifford; Boucher - Mr. Lupescu; Benet - The King of the Cats; Bradbury-Uncle Einar; Leiber - Space-Time for Strangers; Davidson; Cranch - The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story; Saki -Tobermory (very much in his unique style); Dick; Baum - 4 American Fairy Tales (he wrote many non-Oz stories); Delany-X; Sara Coleridge; Kenneth Morris - The Eyeless Dragons: A Chinese Story; Moorcock-X; William Morris-X; Merritt; Lord Dunsany; Poul Anderson. ( )
  librisissimo | May 31, 2021 |
A collection of short stories and excerpts from larger works, this is a pretty hit-and-miss collection. It took me nearly a year to read it because of the tedium of some of the pieces. It's interesting in that it shows works by major authors that might otherwise be unknown in the fantasy genre (Dickens, Heinlein, etc.) Bradbury's "Uncle Einar" was delightful, as was Hawthorne's "Feathertop" and Boucher's "Mr. Lupescu." On the other hand, Kenneth Morris' "Three Tales" were utterly unreadable, "The Last of the Huggermuggers" dragged on endlessly, and Sara Coleridge's story should probably remain buried in obscurity. This might be of interest to either neophytes of the genre, or those who are deeply into fantasy. Dilettantes should give it a miss.

Included are:
"The Rule of Names" - Ursula K. LeGuin
"The Magic Fishbone" - Charles Dickens
"The Goddess of the Street Corner" - Margaret St. Clair
"Feathertop: A Moralized Legend" - Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The Root and the Ring" - Wyman Guin
"The Green Magician" - L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt
"Our Fair City" - Robert Heinlein
"The Man Who Could Not See Devils" - Joanna Russ
"Hieroglyphic Tales" - Horace Walpole
"Bird of Prey" - John Collier
"The Detective of Dreams" - Gene Wolfe
"The Bee-Man of Orn" - Frank R. Stockton
"The Red Hawk" - Elizabeth R. Lynn
"The Canvasser's Tale" - Mark Twain
"The Silken-Swift..." - Theodore Sturgeon
"The New Mother" - Lucy Clifford
"Mr. Lupescu" - Anthony Boucher
"The King of the Cats" - Stephen Vincent Benet
"Uncle Einar" - Ray Bradbury
"Space-Time for Springers" - Fritz Leiber
"Great is Diana" - Avram Davidson
"The Last of the Huggermuggers: A Giant Story" - Christopher Pearse Cranch
"Tobermory" - Saki
"The King of the Elves" - Philip K. Dick
"4 American Fairy Tales" - L. Frank Baum
"The Tale of Dragons and Dreamers" - Samuel R. Delany
excerpt from "Phantasmion" - Sara Coleridge
"3 Tales" - Kenneth Morris
"Elric at the End of Time" - Michael Moorcock
"Lindenborg Pool" - William Morris
"The Moon Pool" - A. Merritt
"The Sword of Welleran" - Lord Dunsany
"Operation Afreet" - Poul Anderson ( )
1 vote Imrahil2001 | Jun 8, 2010 |
Hardcover. ( )
  lordofthegamez | Jul 20, 2007 |
Hardcover. Book Club Edition. ( )
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