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Anthology: Strange to Tell: Stories of the Marvelous and Mysterious

Editors (alphabetically listed):  Marjorie Fischer  |  Rolfe Humphries

Language:  English

Bibliographic comments:

Strange to Tell: Stories of the Marvelous and Mysterious

Marjorie Fischer, Rolfe Humphries, eds.

1946

<  1946, 1st edition

Julian Messner

No ISBN

Hardcover, xxi+532 pages

$3.75

Notes:

  •  Introduction by Marjorie Fischer and Rolfe Humphries.

  •  Relevant contents are highlighted in white.

Fiction: Thomas Mann, The Wardrobe  //  Ivan Bunin, Adventure with a Handbag  //  Fernán Caballero, To Saragossa

or Back to the Pond  //  Guy de Pourtalès, The Specter's Wedding  //  Gottfried Keller, The Virgin As Nun  //  Gabriel

Scott, Nils Punctual and His Clocks  //  Luigi Pirandello, The Haunted House  //  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The

New Melusina  // Hans Christian Andersen, The Princess on the Pea  //  Nicolai Leskov, The Spirit of Madame de

Genlis  //  The Brothers Grimm, The Devil Turned Pleader  //  Sigrid Undset, The Ashlad Who Made the Princess Say,

"You Lie"  //  Prosper Mérimée, Federigo  //  Cyrano de Bergerac, A Voyage to the Moon  //  Wilhelm Hauff, The Story

of the Haunted Ship  //  August Strindberg, The Big Gravel-Sifter  //  Jules Laforgue, Perseus and Andromeda or The

Happiest One of the Triangle  //  Paul Nizan, About Theseus  //  Louis Couperus, Bluebeard's Daughter  //  Georges

Clemenceau, A Domestic Drama  //  Jules Verne, Doctor Ox's Experiment  //  Maxim Gorki, The Man with a National

Face  //  Luigi Pirandello, Tortoises... for Luck  //  Karel Čapek, The Musical Conductor's Story  //  Maxim Gorki, The

Writer  //  Franz Kafka, The Hunter Gracchus  //  Marcel Proust, The Stranger  //  Massimo Bontempelli, The

Avenging Film  // Théophile Gautier, Two Actors for One Role  //  The Brothers Grimm, Gambling Hansel  //  

Afanasiev, The Wondrous Wonder, the Marvelous Marvel  //  Vladimir Korolenko, Makar's Dream  //  Ludvig av

Holberg, Voyage to the Regions of Prodigies  //  Mikhail E. Saltykov, How a Muzhik Fed Two Russian Officials  //  

Leonardo Da Vinci, The Elk – Captured When Asleep  // Arkadyi Averchenko, The Beyond  //  Ignazio Silone, A Trip

to Paris  // Isaac Loeb Perez, Bontche Schweig  //  Sholem Asch, God's Bread  //  Arnold Zweig, The Apparition  //  

Azorín, The First Miracle  //  Leo Tolstoi, The Three Hermits  //  John the Hermit, A Convent Tragedy  //  Pierre Mac

Orlan, By the Light of the Lanterns  //  Paradis de Moncrieff, The Isle of Liberty (excerpt)  //  Ramón Gómez de la

Serna, The Master of the Atom  //  Jean-Richard Bloch, The Death of Oedipus  //  Franz Kafka, The City Coat of

Arms  //  Voltaire, Plato's Dream  //  Jacqueline Boisyvon, Yannik Boisyvon, Mr. Maillochin Was Going Home  //  

Lion Feuchtwanger, Faithful Peter  //  Munch, Hindenberg's March into London (excerpt)  //  Lucien Besnard, Laughs

Under the Heel  //  Louis Aragon, Penitent 43  //  Guy de Pourtalès, The Miracle of Twelfth Night  //  Colette, Story for

the Little Children of the Poilus

Poetry: Rainer Maria Rilke, The Unicorn  //  Heinrich Heine, The Waterwitch Lurley  //   Anonymous, Lord Arnaldos:

Spanish Ballad  //  Paul Verlaine, Woman and Cat  //  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Waterman  //  Victor Hugo,

The Djinns  //  Krylov, The Wolf in the Kennels  //  Anonymous, The Milk White Doe  //  Victor Hugo, The Hunter in

Black  //  Jean Cassou, Sonnet VII  //  Émile Verhaeren, In the North

Essay: Anonymous, From the Trial of Joan of Arc