The Book of Fantasy

1st English-language edition, revised and expanded
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Last edited by Tom Morris
May 14, 2024 | History

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.
--back cover

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Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Language
English
Pages
384

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Антология фантастической литературы
Антология фантастической литературы
1999, "Amfora"
Hardcover in Russian
Cover of: The Book of Fantasy
The Book of Fantasy
1990, Carroll & Graf
Paperback in English - 1st English-language edition, revised and expanded
Cover of: The Book of fantasy
The Book of fantasy
1990, Black Swan
Paperback in English
Cover of: The Book of Fantasy
The Book of Fantasy
1988, Xanadu
Hardcover in English - 1st English language ed., rev. and expanded.
Cover of: the Book of Fantasy
the Book of Fantasy
1988, Viking
Hardcover in English
Cover of: The Book of Fantasy
The Book of Fantasy
1988, Viking
Hardcover in English - printing (1)
Cover of: Antología de la literatura fantástica
Antología de la literatura fantástica
1980-06, Editorial Sudamericana
Mass Market Paperback in Spanish - 6. ed.
Cover of: Antología de la literatura fantástica
Antología de la literatura fantástica
1977, EDHASA
in Spanish

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Edition Notes

Translation of: Antología de la literatura fantástica.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
1988
Translation Of
Antología de la literatura fantástica
Translated From
Spanish

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
808.83/8766
Library of Congress
PN6071.F25 A5713 1990, PN6071.F25A5713 1990

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
384p.
Number of pages
384

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1880269M
Internet Archive
bookoffantasy00borg
ISBN 10
0881846562
ISBN 13
9780881846560
LCCN
90040770
OCLC/WorldCat
21971251
Library Thing
52706
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0881846562
Google
5XgtGwAACAAJ
Goodreads
44051

Work Description

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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