The Book of Imaginary Beings

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From dragons and unicorns to beings born only in Borges’s labyrinthine mind, this extraordinary compendium blurs the line between scholarship and fantasy. At once encyclopaedia and storybook, it reveals Borges’s genius for turning knowledge into wonder.

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A dazzling catalogue of be creatures drawn from the dreamworlds of myth, folklore, and imagination

From ancient myths to obscure legends, a strange menagerie takes shape: creatures part real, part invented, drawn from cultures across the world. Each is described with care, as if it might exist just beyond the edge of belief. The Book of Imaginary Beings is Jorge Luis Borges’s playful, erudite bestiary of the fantastic. Curious and endlessly inventive, it explores the power of imagination to create entire worlds.

BRIEF ENCOUNTERS: classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days

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Weight 160 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.8 × 1.3 cm
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Cover

Paperback
Pages

176
Language

English
Edition

New edition
Dewey

398.469 (edition:23)
Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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