The Book of Fantasy - 1988

"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 Ocampo. 'We 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. 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 She writes: 'It is an idiosyncratic selection, and completely eclectic. Some 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...' This is, quite simply, the finest anthology of its kind." - The Book of Fantasy - Edited by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo, & A. Bioy Casares. Introduced by Ursula K. LeGuin. Published 1988 Viking / Penguin Books, New York Hardcover. Approx 6.5x9.5in. 384pp. Dustjacket shows some minor scuffs & wear. Otherwise in good vintage condition.