Tales

Ol' Pappy · 28 Oct 1999, 15:41 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: "Ol' Pappy" <cglst7+ at pitt.edu>
Subject: (urth) Re: Tales
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 15:41:29
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Nutricious sez:

>Could this be *The Book of Fantasy* by B & BC, published by Viking in
>1988? It's a collection of stories by other authors first pub'd in 1940
>in the Argentine. The first is by Akutagawa, but this edition is arranged
>alphabetically (aleph-abetically?) by authors. There's a Bradbury, a
>couple of Chestertons, etc. Let us know if it's the same book.

No. They are similar but not the same. The longest story in *Extraordinary
Tales* is four 5x7 pages. Both books have the same mission statement, and
are peppered with the same Borges sine qua nons: "On Cartography" and "The
Magician," I think, are two.=20

*Extraordinary Tales* is better, for reasons previously stated.

O.P.P.

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