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DEFINITIONS
Science Fiction : A popular modern branch of prose fiction that explores the probable consequences of some improbable or impossible transformation of the basic conditions of human (or intelligent non‐human) existence.
Fantasy : A general term for any kind of fictional work that is not primarily devoted to realistic representation of the known world. The category includes several literary genres (e.g. dream vision, fable, fairy tale, romance, science fiction) describing imagined worlds in which magical powers and other impossibilities are accepted.
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Chris Baldick. Oxford University Press, 2008.
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Pre-1900 Selected Titles
- Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus byCall Number: PR5397 .F7 1849Publication Date: 1849
- Nightmare Abbey: by the author of Headlong Hall byCall Number: PR5162 .N5 1818Publication Date: 1818
- Romances, Novels, and Tales byCall Number: 843 V889roMicromégas
- The Pursuit of the House-Boat: Being some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. byCall Number: F B225p
- A Stable for Nightmares; or, Weird Tales byCall Number: PS648.F3 S730 1896Publication Date: 1896
- Twenty Thousand Leagues; or, The Marvelous and Exciting Adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil, his Servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian Harpooner. byCall Number: F V59tw 1880Publication Date: 1880Illustrated.
- When the Sleeper Wakes byCall Number: PR5774 .W4 1900z