The Book of Fantasy Originally conceived of by its Argentinian editors in 1937, and now published in English for the first time, this unusual and provocative volume is an omnibus collection. In addition to stories by Ballard, Poe, Saki, Max Beerbohm, Ray Bradbury, May Sinclair, de Maupassant and Julio Cortazar, there are shorter pieces, anecdotes, folkloric fragments, dreamlike moments. Most of the 79 selections are only a paragraph or two long, giving us brief passage into magical visions of the world culled from the work of an international array of authors of the past three centuries, including less well-known authors such as Santiago Dabove, Edwin Morgan and Niu Chiao. The keynote tale may well be Borges's own "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" in which an imaginary world, conjured up by manufactured documentation, ends up eroding our reality: reality is malleable, and imagination necessarily subverts and alters it. CONTENT: 1. Introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin 2. Sennin by Ryunosuke Akutagawa 3. A Woman Alone with Her Soul by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 4. Ben-Tobith by Leonid Andreyev 5. The Phantom Basket by John Aubrey 6. The Drowned Giant by J. G. Ballard 7. Enoch Soames by Max Beerbohm 8. The Tail of the Sphinx by Ambrose Bierce 9. The Squid in Its Own Ink by Adolfo Bioy Casares 10. Guilty Eyes by Ah'med Ech Chiruani 11. Anything You Want!... by Leon Bloy 12. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius by Jorge Luís Borges 13. Odin by Jorge Luís Borges & Delia Ingenieros 14. The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind by Ray Bradbury 15. The Man Who Collected the First of September 1973 by Tor Åge Bringsvaerd 16. The Careless Rabbi by Martin Buber 17. The Tale and the Poet by Sir Richard Francis Burton 18. Fate is a Fool by Arturo Cancela & Pilar de Lusarreta 19. An Actual Authentic Ghost by Thomas Carlyle 20. The Red King's Dream by Lewis Carroll 21. The Tree of Pride by G. K. Chesterton 22. The Tower of Babel by G. K. Chesterton 23. The Dream of the Butterfly by Chuang Tzu 24. The Look of Death by Jean Cocteau 25. House Taken Over by Julio Cortázar 26. Being Dust by Santiago Dabove 27. A Parable of Gluttony by Alexandra David-Neel 28. The Persecution of the Master by Alexandra David-Neel 29. The Idle City by Lord Dunsany 30. Tantalia by Macedonio Fernández 31. Eternal Life by J. G. Frazer 32. A Secure Home by Elena Garro 33. The Man Who Did Not Believe in Miracles by Herbert A. Giles 34. Earth's Holocaust by Nathaniel Hawthorne 35. Ending for a Ghost Story by I. A. Ireland 36. The Monkey's Paw by W. W. Jacobs 37. What is a Ghost? by James Joyce 38. May Goulding by James Joyce 39. The Wizard Passed Over by Don Juan Manuel 40. Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk by Franz Kafka 41. Before the Law by Franz Kafka 42. The Return of Imray by Rudyard Kipling 43. The Horses of Abdera by Leopoldo Lugones 44. The Ceremony by Arthur Machen 45. The Riddle by Walter de la Mare 46. Who Knows? by Guy de Maupassant 47. The Shadow of the Players by Edwin Morgan 48. The Cat by H. A. Murena 49. The Story of the Foxes by Niu Chiao 50. The Atonement by Silvina Ocampo 51. The Man Who Belonged to Me by Giovanni Papini 52. Rani by Carlos Peralta 53. The Blind Spot by Barry Perowne 54. The Wolf by Petronius 55. The Bust by Manuel Peyrou 56. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 57. The Tiger of Chao-Ch'Eng by P'u Sung-Ling 58. How We Arrived at the Island of Tools by François Rabelais 59. The Music on the Hill by Saki 60. Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched by May Sinclair 61. The Cloth Which Weaves Itself by W. W. Skeat 62. Universal History by Olaf Stapledon 63. A Theologian in Death by Emanuel Swedenborg 64. The Encounter by unknown 65. The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy 66. Macario by B. Traven 67. The Infinite Dream of Pao-Yu by Tsao Hsueh-Chin 68. The Mirror to Wind-and-Moon by Tsao Hsueh-Chin 69. The Desire To Be a Man by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam 70. Memmon, or Human Wisdom by Voltaire 71. The Man Who Liked Dickens by Evelyn Waugh 72. Pomegranate Seed by Edith Wharton 73. Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White 74. The Donguys by Juan Rodolfo Wilcock 75. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde 76. The Sorcerer of the White Lotus Lodge by Richard Wilhelm 77. The Celestial Stag by G. Willoughby-Meade 78. Saved by the Book by G. Willoughby-Meade 79. The Reanimated Englishman by Mary Shelley 80. The Sentence by Wu Ch'Eng En 81. The Sorcerers by William Butler Yeats 82. Fragment by José Zorrilla Audio-DVD format: It can be used on DVD and DVD-Rom players, also on devices such as Playstation, Xbox or portable DVD players. 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