The Book Of Fantasy [Import] [Paperback]

Silvana Ocampo, A. Bioy Casares (Editors) Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Black Swan; New Ed edition (1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0552994014
• ISBN-13: 978-0552994019
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,747,778 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars first rate!, April 24, 2010

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Martin Chandler (Orange CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Book of Fantasy (Paperback)

This collection is excellent. Along with the deservedly famous selections such as The Monkey's Paw and The Man Who Liked Dickens, there are many stories even the most erudite fantasy reader may be unacquainted with. Some of the tales, such as The Story of the Foxes by Niu Chiao and the unsettling Guilty Eyes by Ah'med Ech Chiruani, are half page at most, but will implant themselves in the memory as effectively as the longer narrations. ("Guilty Eyes" is as durable as a poison oak seed.) Also present is a fine selection of Latin American fictions, with a focus on Argentine writers. Kafka' Josephine the Singer, Cocteau's The Look of Death, and Beerbohm's Enoch Soames sound straight out of the world of Borges, a tribute to the latter writer who managed to forge a world view at once deeply personal yet universal. Borges's own Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius is included as well as a piece by the under-read Casares. All in all an indispensable collection, marred only by an astonishing number of typos. Buy it! (At 92 cents it's a steal.)

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic collection, April 1, 2005

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Helen Boyd (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Book of Fantasy (Paperback)

This book is more what a fantasy-reader friend of mine called "literary fantasy" dismissively, but I think it's a wonderful collection - all over the map in terms of stories, global in scope and style, and just great reading overall.