Discoveries: Fifty Shades of the Quest: Second Edition

Overview:

• Title: Discoveries: Fifty Shades of the Quest: Second Edition
• Author: Harold Schechter, Jonna Gormley Semeiks
• Year: 1992
• ISBN-10: 0195068505
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Price: $81.95
• Pages: 652
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: The Lost Explorer
• Notes:
  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • No date other than year. Date from Amazon.com as of 2020-03-22.
  • First printing per number line.
  • Copyright page has both a 1992 & 1993 copyright statement, but LCCN has 1992. It is listed as first printing per number line and 1992 date agrees with Amazon.
  • Credit artist credit rear cover
  • No price on book. Price from Amazon.com as of 2020-03-22.
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Anthology is focused on the hero's quest. In theme, it relates highly to genre, but the contents are not all genre. Only stories already in database indexed below, but there could be other genre content.
  • Preface states this second edition changes a quarter of the contents of the first edition
  • "The Island at Noon" translated by Suzanne Jill Levine
  • "The Poet" translated by Denver Lindley
  • "Blacamán the Good, Vendor of Miracles" translated by Gregory Rabassa
  • "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaller" translated by Arthur McDowell
  • "How Wang-Fo Was Saved" translated by Alberto Manguel