Fancies and Goodnights. Garden City: Doubleday Company, Inc., First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine titles stamped in pink, pink endpapers, pink topstain. Shallow bumps to spine ends and fore corners. Jacket has some edge chips at spine ends, some rubs along joint and fore edge folds, and a . · An adaptation from Milton, Paradise Lost: Screenplay for Cinema of the Mind was published in , but never produced as a film. Collier’s other works range from the poetry collection Gemini () to the novels Tom’s A-Cold () and Defy the Foul Fiend (), and the short story collections Presenting Moonshine (), Fancies and Goodnights (), Pictures in the Fire (), Brand: New York Review Books. All the short stories of John Collier are now collected in two volumes, Fancies and Goodnights Vol 1 and Fancies and Goodnights Vol 2. Vol 1 won the International Fantasy Award in His fantastic ability to mix satire with though provoking 'what ifs' is clearly seen in this compilation of thirty-two short stories entitled, Fancies and Goodnights/5(19).
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights "How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! I love John Collier - "His Monkey Wife" is the most brilliant homage/send-up of Victorian novels ever written, with a little bit of kink. And, from "Fancies and Goodnights", "If Youth Knew What Age Could" should be required reading for every adolescent. And also, Congratulations, Cover Boy! Reply Delete. Collier, John () Fancies and Goodnights. Garden City: Doubleday Company, Inc., First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. [xii], pages. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Bound in black cloth over boards with spine titles stamped in pink, pink endpapers, pink topstain. Shallow bumps to spine ends and fore corners.
Fancies and Goodnights is a collection of fantasies and murder stories by John Collier, first published by Doubleday Books in hardcover in A paperback edition followed from Bantam Books in , and it has been repeatedly reprinted over more than five decades, most recently in the New York Review Books Classics line, with an introduction by Ray Bradbury. John Collier’s short story collection, Fancies and Goodnights, which was first published in , is a collection of fifty short stories (including “Wet Saturday”) with Collier’s signature wit and dark, ironic humor. Most of these stories are not grounded in reality but in flights of fancy. John Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the s to the s. They were collected in a volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which is still in print. Individual stories are frequently anthologized in fantasy collections.
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