Krakens and golems and norns, oh my! The master's magical bestiary is back in a handsome new volume.

The Washington Post | October 30, 2005| | Copyright

THE BOOK OF IMAGINARY BEINGS

By Jorge Luis Borges with Margarita Guerrero

Translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley

Illustrated by Peter Sis

Viking. 236 pp. $25.95 Just their names sound magical -- lamia, basilisk, hippogriff, phoenix, manticore, golem, unicorn, kraken, siren, mandrake, sphinx. Creatures of myth or make-believe, these "extraordinary beings" lurk forever in the recesses of our imaginations, killing with a glance, rising from the ashes of their own funeral pyres, seducing sailors with a song. They are the stuff of travelers' tales, in hiding only a little beyond the ...

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