| Description |
384 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Antología de la literatura fantástica. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bio-bibliographies. |
| Summary |
"Collection of stories drawn from all the literatures of the world." |
| Contents |
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 |
| Subject |
Fantasy literature.
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| Added Author |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
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Ocampo, Silvina.
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Bioy Casares, Adolfo.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Antología de la literatura fantástica. English. Book of fantasy. New York, NY : Viking, 1988 (OCoLC)607806166 |
| ISBN |
0670823937 |
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9780670823932 |
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