What writings by "classic" authors would you consider fantasy?

[Longgrain]

Of course I'm sure you all already consider Tolkien a classic author (and I do as well), and by the looks of it, Rowling is well on her way, but I'm thinking more in the vein of writers who aren't particularly known to be considered fantasy writers, or writers whose works may cross into other genres.

Asides from LOTR, I'm not as familiar with fantasy literature as the rest of you are, more into what most people would call "classics". I'm not looking for a debate as to what would be considered "classic" but more as to what would be called "fantasy".

Already I can think of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson, though these two can be argued to cross the lines into Science fiction or horror.

Do the works of Homer count as fantasy, if taken as literature?

How about the more imaginative writings of Herman Hesse (who I'm a big fan of BTW) such as Steppenwolf, The Glass Bead Game, and the Journey to the East, all of which can be said to qualify as fantasy.

And just how do we classify Kafka? Or stuff like Dostoevsky's The Nose?

Or how about Italo Calvino (who I'm just starting to read right now) or are we blurring the lines again.

I hope I'm not disrupting things too much, there's nothing more I'd like than to kick back with the rest of you and talk Tolkien, and learn more about these other new worlds I'm just discovering, I simply think It's a subject that could be open to discussion amongst Fantasy fans...and am wondering what the rest of you think.

Or should I just hurry back to my cave before the first rays of the morning sun hit me and I become a permanent part of the landscape.;-)