A catalog of creatures imagined across time
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A catalog of creatures imagined across time
Jorge Luis Borges’s 1957 compilation gathers 116 beings drawn from human imagination, ranging from familiar figures such as dragons and centaurs to creatures from the works of Lewis Carroll and H. G. Wells. The entries form a literary bestiary spanning varied sources and traditions. This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition pairs the text with twenty illustrations by Peter Sís, commissioned for the volume, adding a visual counterpart to Borges’s collection. Its scope makes the book as much a gathering of imaginative figures as a survey of how they appear across literature and cultural history.
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