Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Fantasy

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This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Fantasy
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 This book contains:
 Edgar Rice Burroughs:
 
 Tarzan's First Love
 A Jungle Joke
 Tarzan Rescues the Moon
 John Carter and the Giant Of Mars
 The Ancient Dead
 Beyond Thirty
 Skeleton Men of JupiterJohn Kendrick Bangs:
 
 The Water Ghost Of Harrowby Hall
 The Spectre Cook Of Bangletop
 A Midnight Visitor
 The Speck On The Lens
 A Quicksilver Cassandra
 The Ghost Club
 A Psychical PrankOscar Wilde:
 
 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
 The Sphinx without a Secret
 A Model Millionaire
 The Happy Prince
 The Fisherman and his Soul
 The Nightingale and the Rose
 The Young KingLord Dunsany:
 
 ChuBu and Sheemish
 The Hoard of the Gibbelins
 The Quest of the Queen's Tears
 How One Came, As Was Foretold, To The City Of Never
 The Wonderful Window
 The Bride Of The Man Horse
 The House Of The SphinxKenneth Grahame:
 
 The TwentyFirst of October
 Dies Irae
 Mutabile Semper
 The Magic Ring
 Its Walls Were as of Jasper
 A Saga of the Seas
 The Reluctant Dragon

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Kenneth Grahame (8 March 1859 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), one of the classics of children's literature. Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime, and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's uvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Edgar Rice Burroughs was a ranch hand, a salesman and an advertising copywriter before trying fiction in 1911. He found success writing serialized stories for pulp magazines. His jungle adventure novel Tarzan of the Apes (1912) became the first of 25 books featuring Tarzan, the son of an English nobleman abandoned in Africa and raised by apes. He wrote 43 other novels. John Kendrick Bangs(1862-1922) American humourist, editor, essayist and lecturer. He inspired the term Bangsian fantasy which put a name to the fantastical style of writing of the afterlife which was so much like his own, and that had been seen earlier in such masterpieces as the description of Hell and the voyage across the river Styx in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

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