Golden Cities, Far

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name = Golden Cities, Far
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image_caption = Cover of "Golden Cities, Far"
author = edited by Lin Carter
cover_artist = Ralph Iwamoto and Kathleen Zimmerman
country = United States
language = English
series = Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
genre = Fantasy short stories
publisher = Ballantine Books
release_date = 1970
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 299 pp
isbn = NA
preceded_by = The Young Magicians
followed_by = New Worlds for Old

"Golden Cities, Far" is an anthology of fantasy short stories, edited by Lin Carter. It was first published in paperback by Ballantine Books in October 1970 as the twenty-second volume of its celebrated "Ballantine Adult Fantasy series". It was the third such anthology assembled by Carter for the series.

The book collects twelve fantasy tales and poems by various authors, with an overall introduction and notes by Carter.

Contents

*"Introduction" by Lin Carter
*"How Nefer-ka-ptah Found The Book of Thoth" - from the Egyptian Papyri, retold by Brian Brown
*"The Descent of Ishtar to the Netherworld" - from the Sumerian Epic "Angalta Kigalshe" in a new version by (Lin Carter)
*"Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou" - from Galland's "Les Mille et Une Nuit" in an old English version
*"The Talisman of Oromanes" - from the Persian "Tales of the Genii", translated by Sir Charles Morell
*"Wars of the Giants of Albion" - from the Welsh "Historia Regum Britanniae" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in a new version by Wayland Smith
*"Forty Singing Seamen" - a modern English ballad on an old legend by Alfred Noyes
*"The Shadowy Lord of Mommur" - from the French romance "Huon of Bordeaux", translated by Sir John Bourchier, retold by Robert Steele
*"Olivier's Brag" - a modern treatment of a Carolingian legend by Anatole France, translated by Alfred Allinson
*"The White Bull" - from the romances of Voltaire
*"The Yellow Dwarf" - from the French "Contes Nouvelles ou les Fees", by Madame d'Aulnoy
*"Arcalaus the Enchanter; the Isle of Wonders" - from the Portuguese "Amadis of Gaul", translated by Robert Southey
*"The Palace of Illusions" - from "Orlando Furioso" by Ludovico Ariosto, translated by Richard Hodgens