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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
1973

Pages
  
viii, 248 pp.

Author
  
Lin Carter

Cover artist
  
Gervasio Gallardo

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Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print (Paperback)

Originally published
  
1973

Publisher
  
Ballantine Books

Genres
  
Fantasy, Short story

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Series
  
Ballantine Adult Fantasy series

Preceded by
  
Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I

Similar
  
Lin Carter books, Short Stories

Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II is an anthology of fantasy novellas, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifty-sixth volume of its celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in March, 1973. It was the eighth such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.

Contents

The book collects four novellas by as many fantasy authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter. It is a companion volume to Carter's earlier Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy I (1972).

Contents

  • "Introduction" (Lin Carter)
  • "The Woman in the Mirror" (George Macdonald, Phantastes)
  • "The Repairer of Reputations" (Robert W. Chambers, The King in Yellow)
  • "The Transmutation of Ling" (Ernest Bramah, The Wallet of Kai Lung)
  • "The Lavender Dragon" (Eden Phillpotts, The Lavender Dragon)

    • Reception

    Theodore Sturgeon reported the stories "run from great to quaint."

    References

    Great Short Novels of Adult Fantasy Volume II Wikipedia
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