The Dedalus Book of Dutch Fantasy is the most ambitious and wide-ranging anthology of Dutch fiction ever to appear in English, and reads like the Who's Who of Dutch Literature, with stories by the undisputed contemporary masters such as Gerard Reve and Harry Mulisch, and classic authors such as Couperus, Van Schendel and Vestdijk, as well as many of the rising stars of the younger generation; Frans Kellendonk, A.F.TH. Van Der Heijden and P.F. Thomese. The stereotype of the Dutch that most immediately springs to mind is that of a clean, orderly, and down-to-earth people. Richard Huijing reveals the other side of this society; that of a dark netherworld of the macabre, the weird, the perverted, the violent and the fancifully impossible conjured up by a host of the finest writers in the Dutch language of the last hundred years.
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I love fantasy, which is why my daughter bought me the Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy several years back when she went to Austria. I liked it very much. This book is not nearly as good. While one could argue that the vein of fantasy and literature in general is much richer in Austria than the Netherlands, I believe the main problem here is one of poor editing, and to a lesser extent of translation. Besides being of poor quality, most of the stories don't even qualify as fantasy.This editor also has another in the Dedalus series, which I plan to scrupulously avoid.
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- The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: 19th Century (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) by Brian Stableford in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tales of the Wandering Jew by Brian M. Stableford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In The Dark (Signature Select) by Judith Arnold in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Decadence from Dedalus) (v. 1) by Brian M. Stableford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Juan by Wolfgang Ama Mozart on page 106, and page 109
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- The History of Holland (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Mark T. Hooker in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Smarra & Trilby (Dedalus European Classics) by Charles Nodier in Front Matter
- The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: 19th Century (European Literary Fantasy Anthologies) by Brian Stableford in Front Matter
- The Angels of Perversity (Decadence from Dedalus) by Remy de Gourmont in Front Matter
- Devil in Love by Jacques Cazotte in Front Matter
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