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A rich and joyous collection of tales of myth, magic and necromancy, by authors ancient and modern - all the way from the anonymous chronicler of perhaps the oldest of written fantasies - the Sumarian Angalta Kigalshe - to Anatole France and his Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche. Here you will find extracts from the Egyptian Book of Thoth, from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
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Mass Market, 299 pages
Published
October 1970
by Ballantine Books
(first published 1970)
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So, if you think that a collection "largely devoted to ancient writers of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages" would be free of Lin Carter's self-promotional impulse, you would in fact be dead wrong. In this case he provides a reworked version of an English translation of the Sumerian Angalta Kigalshe. It may just be the least successful of the collection: he made use of antiquated verb forms and constructions--"hath", "descendeth", and so forth--rather than using the clean lines of contempo
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Another Lin Carter-edited anthology from the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series. This one reminds us that people have been telling stories of gods, demons, swords, wizards, monsters and adventures for a long time -- the oldest pieces in this book date back to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and even the most recent just barely push into the 20th Century. There's a good mix of standalone stories (The Talisman of Oromanes, The Yellow Dwarf, The White Bull) and excerpts from longer pieces (taken from H
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Found this book, dusty and forgotten in the morale area of the camp I'm living at. So happy I grabbed it and gave it a try. I really, really enjoyed all of the folk/fairy tales, most of which I haven't heard of before. The editorial comments on the stories themselves are also fascinating and worthwhile. I'm plan on checking out the rest of Mr. Carter's collection.
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Linwood Vrooman Carter was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor and critic. He usually wrote as Lin Carter; known pseudonyms include H. P. Lowcraft (for an H. P. Lovecraft parody) and Grail Undwin.
Carter had a marked tendency toward self-promotion in his work, frequently citing his own writings in his nonfiction to illustrate points and almost always including at ...more
Carter had a marked tendency toward self-promotion in his work, frequently citing his own writings in his nonfiction to illustrate points and almost always including at ...more
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