The Book of Imaginary Beings

Download or Read eBook The Book of Imaginary Beings PDF written by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Book of Imaginary Beings
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9780099442639
ISBN-13 : 0099442639
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Book Synopsis The Book of Imaginary Beings by : Jorge Luis Borges

Book excerpt: As we all know, there is a kind of lazy pleasure in useless and out-of-the-way erudition-The compilation and translation of this volume have given us a great deal of such pleasure; we hope the reader will share some of the fun we felt when ransacking the


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