Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. Douglas A. Anderson (Ballantine Del Rey, April 2008, 978-0-345-49890-8, $15.00, 339 + xipp, tp, an, cover by John Howe)
Anthology of 16 stories, two novel excerpts, and two poems that might have influenced Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. One novel excerpt is from the previously unpublished The Wood that Time Forgot by Roger Lancelyn Green. Other authors include E. Nesbit, George MacDonald, and Charles Dickens.
- ix · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in
- 3 · Proem: Tegnér’s Drapa · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pp 1849
- 7 · The Aunt and Amabel · E. Nesbit · ss Blackie’s Children’s Annual 1909, Blackie, 1909
- 17 · The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories · Hans Christian Andersen · nv (r)
translated from the Danish (“Snedronningen”, Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling, C.A. Reitzel, 1844).
- 45 · The Magic Mirror · George MacDonald · ex from Phantastes, Smith, Elder, 1858; from chapter 13.
- 63 · Undine · Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué; translated by F. E. Burnett · na 1885
translated from the German (Die Jahreszeiten Spring 1811).
- 129 · Letters from Hell: Letter III · Valdemar Thisted · ss 1884
- 135 · Fastosus and Avaro · John Macgowan · ss 1772
from Infernal Conference: or, Dialogues of Devils, 1772.
- 147 · The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828
- 161 · The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837
- 173 · The Child and the Giant · Owen Barfield · ss 1930
- 183 · A King’s Lesson · William Morris · ss The Commonweal September 18 1886, as “An Old Story Retold”
- 191 · The Waif Woman · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1914; subtitled “A Cue—from a Saga”.
- 207 · First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows · Kenneth Grahame · ex Methuen, 1908
- 239 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss MacLean’s October 15 1924
- 257 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury December 1935
- 269 · The Dragon’s Visit · J. R. R. Tolkien · pm The Oxford Magazine February 4 1937
- 275 · The Coloured Lands · G. K. Chesterton · ss Number Three Joy Street, 1925
- 283 · The Man Who Lived Backwards · Charles F. Hall · ss Tales of Wonder #3, Summer 1938
- 301 · The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood · Roger Lancelyn Green · ss; extract from an unpublished novel.
- 313 · The Dream Dust Factory · William Lindsay Gresham · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1947
- 329 · Author Notes and Recommended Reading · [uncredited] · ms
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