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The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century

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The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy traces the development of the genre through the stories and poems of Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, Disraeli, William Morris, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson and Vernon Lee, until the end of the century.

CONTENTS:
Introduction by Brian Stableford
Henry Fitzowen (excerpt) by Nathan Drake
Kubla Khan (poem) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Lamia (poem) by John Keats
The Nymph of the Lurlei Berg - A Tale by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Ixion in Heaven by Benjamin Disraeli
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens
A Chronicle of England by John Sterling
Erotion by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Morte d'Arthur (poem) by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Walking Stick of Destiny by Lewis Carroll
A Dream by William Morris
The Woman in the Mirror (excerpt) by George MacDonald
Goblin Market (poem) by Christina Rossetti
The Sacristan of St. Botolph by William Gilbert
The Dong with the Luminous Nose (poem) by Edward Lear
Sir Jocelyn's Cap by Walter Besant and Walter Herries Pollock
The Siren by F. Anstey
In the Wrong Paradise by Andrew Lang
The House of Judgement by Oscar Wilde
St. Eudæmon and His Orange Tree by Vernon Lee
Alexander the Ratcatcher by Richard Garnett

Published by Dedalus in September 1991
ISBN: 0-946626-84-7

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