The Book of Fantasy
by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Leonid Andreyev, John Aubrey, J. G. Ballard, Sir Max Beerbohm, Ambrose Bierce, Ah'med Ech Chiruani, Léon Bloy, Delia Ingenieros, Ray Bradbury, Tor Åge Bringsværd, Martin Buber, Richard Francis Burton, Arturo Cancela, Pilar de Lusarreta, Thomas Carlyle, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Zhuangzi, Jean Cocteau, Julio Cortázar, Santiago Dabove, Alexandra David-Néel, Lord Edward Dunsay, Macedonio Fernandez, James George Frazer, Elena Garro, Herbert Allen Giles, Nathaniel Hawthorne, I. A. Ireland, W. W. Jacobs, James Joyce, Don Juan Manuel, Franz Kafka, Rudyard Kipling, Leopoldo Lugones, Arthur Machen, Walter De La Mare, Guy de Maupassant, Edwin Morgan, H. A. Murena, Niu Chiao, Papini, Giovanni, Carlos Peralta, Barry Perowne, Petronius Arbiter, Manuel Peyrou, Edgar Allan Poe, Pu Songling, François Rabelais, Saki, May Sinclair, W.W. Skeat, Olaf Stapledon, Emanuel Swedenborg, Лев Толстой, B. Traven, Tsao Hsueh-Chin., Auguste comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Voltaire, Evelyn Waugh, Edward Lucas White, Juan Rodolfo Wilcock, Oscar Wilde, Richard Wilhelm, G. Willoughby-Meade, Mary Shelley, Wu Cheng'en, William Butler Yeats, and Jose Zorilla
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The Book of Fantasy began one night when three friends fell to talking about fantasies and ghost stories. The place was Buenos Aires, 1937, and the people were Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares and his wife Silvina debated which stories were best, wrote Bioy Casares later, 'and someone suggested that if we brought together the tales and the fragments that we had listed in our notebooks we would have a good book. '
The result is an astonishing collection of stories drawn from all the literatures of the world from Ancient China to Modern America mingling the obscure and the neglected with the already famous and showing a splendid disdain for conventional literary opinion. Among the authors included are Leonid Andreyev, Léon Bloy, Lewis Carroll, Jean Cocteau, O.K. Chesterton, James Joyce, Giovanni Papini, Carlos Peralta and Villiers de L'lsle Adam, some of whom have never been translated before. 'It is some- times said, wrote Bruce Chatwin. 'that all the elements of civilization end up eventually in Argentina, and most of it ends up in Borges' head. His values are those of high Western civilization They say lives in a world of imagination and dreams, but he's central to life. '
Now considerably expanded and published for the first time in English, The Book of Fantasy has a specially-written introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin. twice winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. She writes: 'It is an idiosyncratic selection. and completely eclectic. of the stories will be familiar to anyone who reads, others are exotic discoveries. A very well-known piece ... seems less predictable set among works and fragments from the Orient and South America and distant centuries, by Kafka Swedeolorg Cortäzar, Akutagawa. Niu Chiao; its own essential strangeness is restored to This is, quite simply, the finest anthology of its kind.
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Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms, speculative fiction, subjective idealism, duodecimals, aneurysms, adjectives, hermeticism, philanthropy, cabala, persecution, Fantasy fiction, Modern Literature, Translations into Spanish, Bio-bibliographyPeople
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Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Buenos Aires, Lucerne, London, United States, MemphisShowing 8 featured editions. View all 14 editions?
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The Book of Fantasy
1990, Carroll & Graf
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The Book of Fantasy
1988, Xanadu
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Antología de la literatura fantástica
1980-06, Editorial Sudamericana
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Translation of: Antología de la literatura fantástica.
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Contains:
Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa --
A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich --
Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev --
Phantom basket / John Aubrey --
Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard --
Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm --
Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce --
Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares --
Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani --
Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy --
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius / Jorge Luis Borges --
Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros --
Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury --
Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd --
Careless rabbi / Martin Buber --
Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton --
Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta --
An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle --
Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll --
Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton --
Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton --
Man who knew too much / Cassell --
Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu --
Llook of death / Jean Cocteau --
House taken over / Julio Cortázar --
Being dust / Santiago Dabove --
A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel --
Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel --
Idle city / Lord Dunsany --
Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández --
Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer --
A secure home / Elena Garro --
Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles --
Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland --
Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs --
What Is a ghost? / James Joyce --
May Goulding / James Joyce --
Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel --
Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka --
Before the law / Franz Kafka --
Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling --
Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones --
Ceremony / Arthur Machen --
Riddle / Walter de la Mare --
Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant --
Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan --
Cat / H.A. Murena --
Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.
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