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Cargando... Bedtime Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011)por Diana Secker Tesdell
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Another excellent collection of short stories from Everyman's Pocket Classics (I previously read their Detective Stories and have on-and-off been reading Ghost Stories and Stories of the Sea). Don't be mislead by the title, these are not gentle, innocuous stories to put you to bed. Instead, Bedtime Stories weave in and out of dreams, the real, the unreal and the surreal, often with unclear boundaries between them. Some are psychological, some magical, some a combination of both. The book has a number of old stand-by's that were good to re-read (including Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" and Wells' "The Country of the Blind"). Particularly good was A.S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest" which will send me running to read the rest of the collection that came from, LeGuin's "The Poacher" and Nabokov's "The Dragon", which showed yet another side of that author. Steven Millhauser's "A Visit," a seemingly realistic story that includes a character's dream (described as such and clearly delineated from the waking) takes on a new aspect when read in juxtaposition to a collection like this. And many others. Most of these stories are based on fairy tales, but the original tales are manipulated to such a wide extant as to elicit the grossly bizarre. The best story in the book iss Washinton Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," both for its content as well as Irving's writing style The only supernatural aspect of this story is in the imaginations of its characters. For most of the stories though, magic, or the unexplained, plays a starring role. Death is also a favorite theme. If you like bizarre stories, you'll probably like this book. Another excellent collection of short stories from Everyman's Pocket Classics (I previously read their Detective Stories and have on-and-off been reading Ghost Stories and Stories of the Sea). Don't be mislead by the title, these are not gentle, innocuous stories to put you to bed. Instead, Bedtime Stories weave in and out of dreams, the real, the unreal and the surreal, often with unclear boundaries between them. Some are psychological, some magical, some a combination of both. The book has a number of old stand-by's that were good to re-read (including Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown", Stevenson's "The Bottle Imp" and Wells' "The Country of the Blind"). Particularly good was A.S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest" which will send me running to read the rest of the collection that came from, LeGuin's "The Poacher" and Nabokov's "The Dragon", which showed yet another side of that author. Steven Millhauser's "A Visit," a seemingly realistic story that includes a character's dream (described as such and clearly delineated from the waking) takes on a new aspect when read in juxtaposition to a collection like this. And many others. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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As Scheherezade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical legends and tales told around a fire. In Bedtime Stories, great writers of the past two centuries explore the boundaries between the real and the unreal, between waking and dreaming. From the surreal night visions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" to the unspeakable horror that haunts two little girls in A. S. Byatt's "The Thing in the Forest," from Washington Irving's comical "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" to Ursula K. LeGuin's sly perspective on Sleeping Beauty in "The Poacher," these spellbinding stories transform the stuff of fables and fairy tales into high art. Isak Dinesen, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, Julio Cortázar, Steven Millhauser, Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, and many more mingle their voices in this one-volume gateway to dreams--the perfect bedside companion for fiction lovers everywhere. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But I can't say I found any of the stories to be truly captivating, while some felt positively ponderous. Hence, three stars for the book overall. ( )