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    The Other Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Long-Out-of-Print Stories from one of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century
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    The Other Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Long-Out-of-Print Stories from one of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century

    By Avram Davidson

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    A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century

    Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This collection comprises his distinctive historical fantasies-tales of strange Mitteleuropas, of magic in Victorian England and on the American frontier. Here are "The Lineaments of Gratified Desire," "Traveller from an Antique Land," and "What Strange Stars and Skies"; here are dragons, cameras, and "The Singular Incident of the Dog on the Beach." Witty, whimsical, dark, and strange, these tales of times and places that almost were will leave even the most jaded readers amazed. No one has ever written like Avram Davidson, before or since.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateDec 20, 2001
    ISBN9781429972680
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    The Other Nineteenth Century: A Collection of Long-Out-of-Print Stories from one of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century
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    Avram Davidson

    Avram Davidson was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1923. After spending some time at New York University, he served in the Marines from 1942 till 1946--and again saw action during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. For two years in the early 1960s, Davidson edited Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine. He earned awards and accolades throughout his life for his SF writing, including the Hugo Award, the Edgar Award, the Ellery Queen Award, and three World Fantasy Awards. Davidson died in 1993.

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    • 4/5
      A very mixed collection of stories, though most are roughly nineteenth century in setting --though by no means our nineteenth century. Just the fact that it includes one uncollected Dr. Esterhazy story ("The Odd Old Bird') would make it worthwhile for me. Davidson was an extraordinary writer with a great gift for language, though some stories are too sad for my taste.
    • 4/5
      An eccentric collection by an exceedingly eccentric author. It's an excellent volume to pair with The Avram Davidson Treasury. Most of these stories are weirdly skewed peeks at a recent past that never quite was or just might have been. In the Davidson tradition, some stories are impenetrable, and you put the book down shaking your head. Others (like Twenty Three, The Peninsula, and Dragon Skin Drum) are just brilliant. Davidson fans will certainly want to own this. Newcomers might want to start with the Treasury (or might I suggest The Phoenix and the Mirror?).
    • 4/5
      A strange, delightful collection of stories, most straddling the line between fantasy and science fiction.