INTRODUCTION
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INTRODUCTIONFantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga and video games.
Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes respectively, though these genres overlap.
This book is a special collection of twenty best fantasy stories of all time.
Here they are :
A STRANGE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER by James De Mille
A WITCH SHALL BE BORN by Robert Ervin Howard
ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND by Lewis Carroll
AMERICAN FAIRY TALES by Lyman Frank Baum
FAIRY TALES by Hans Christian Andersen
GODS OF THE NORTH by Robert Ervin Howard
IRISH FAIRY TALES by James Stephens
JAPANESE FAIRY TALES by Yei Theodora Ozaki
PETER PAN (PETER AND WENDY) by J.M. Barrie
THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang
THE BOOK OF DRAGONS by Edith Nesbit
THE ENCHANTED CASTLE by Edith Nesbit
THE GHOST by Arnold Bennett
THE JUNGLE BOOK by Rudyard Kipling
THE LOST CONTINENT by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
THE NIGHT LAND by William Hope Hodgson
THE RED FAIRY BOOK by Andrew Lang
THE SORROWS OF SATAN by Marie Corelli
THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ by Lyman Frank Baum
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (And What Alice Found There) by Lewis Carroll
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A STRANGE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN A COPPER CYLINDER by James De Mille
About De Mille
James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a
professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early
Canadian popular writer who published numerous works of popular
fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. He was born in Saint
John, New Brunswick, son of the merchant and shipowner, Nathan De
Mille. He attended Horton Academy in Wolfville and spent one year
at Acadia University. He then travelled with his brother Budd to
Europe, spending half a year in England, France and Italy.
On his
return to North America, he attended Brown University, from which
he obtained a Master of Arts degree in 1854. He married Anne Pryor,
daughter of the president of Acadia University, John Pryor, and was
there appointed professor of classics. He served there until 1865
when he accepted a new appointment at Dalhousie as professor of
English and rhetoric. He continued to write and teach at Dalhousie
until his early death at the age of 47.
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