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  Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas (Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback) By (author) Steven Millhauser

  

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  Short Description for Little KingdomsFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Martin Dressler" come three novellas--works of fiction that create a poetry of the impossible and blithely cross the threshold between the "real" world and the imaginary landscapes of art. "As Gothic as Poe and as imaginative as "Fantasia"".--"Entertainment Weekly".
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  • Publisher: Vintage Books
  • Published: 01 March 1998
  • Format: Paperback 239 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780375701436 ISBN 10: 0375701435
  • Sales rank: 602,281

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• Cartoons that draw their creator into another world; demonic paintings that exert a sinister influence on our own. Fairy tales that express the secret losses and anxieties of their tellers. These are the elements that Steven Millhauser employs to such marvelous - and often disquieting - effect in Little Kingdoms, a collection whose three novellas suggest magical companion pieces to his acclaimed longer fictions. In "The Little Kingdom of J. Franklin Payne, " a gentle eccentric constructs an elaborate alternate universe that is all the more appealing for being transparently unreal. "The Princes, the Dwarf, and the Dungeon" is at once a gothic tale of nightmarish jealousy and a meditation on the human need for exaltation and horror. And "Catalogue of the Exhibition" introduces us to the oeuvre of Edmund Moorash, a Romantic painter who might have been imagined by Nabokov or Poe.