BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS, THE - Penguin

The Book of Imaginary Beings Is Borge's whimsical compendium of more than a hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination. Imbued with Borge's characteristic wit and erudition, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world's mythologies and literature ranges widely across the world's mythologies and literatures to bring together in one delightful encyclopaedia the fantastical inventions from the Kabbalah, Homer, Pliny, Confucius, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Kafka, and C. S. Lewis, among others. Here, readers will find the familiar and expected Dragons and Centaurs, Unicorns and Gnomes, as the less familiar and altogether unexpected Animals That Live in the Mirror, The Elephant That Prefigured the Birth of Buddha, The Lamed Wufniks, and the Hairy Beast if Ka Ferte Verbard. Throughout, Borge's cunning and humorous commentary is sheer delight. For this new illustrated edition of The Book of Imaginary Beings, Penguin has paired Andrew Hurley, the acclaimed translator of Borge's Collected Fictions, with award-winning illustrator Peter S