Extraordinary Tales

Overview:

• Title: Extraordinary Tales
• Author: Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
• Year: 1971
• Publisher: Herder and Herder
• Price: $5.50
• Pages: 144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: Faith, Half-Faith, and No Faith at All
• Notes:
  • 'Edited and Translated with a Foreword by Anthony Kerrigan' on the title page.
  • Translation of: Cuentos Breves y Extraordinarios, published in 1967 by Editorial Santiago Rueda S. R. L., Buena Aires (note on copyright page).
  • Price $5.50 on front flap of dust jacket top corner.
  • Publisher number Herder M41159 on front flap of dust jacket top corner.
  • Cover art not credited, and no signature is visible. Date given on copyright page (1971) but no statement of subsequent printings on verified copy, no number line.
  • Many of the unknown authors could be Anonymous or traditional; there was simply no author listed.
  • Anthony Kerrigan clearly wrote the note on page 16.
  • Although Amazon gives an ISBN for this book there is none printed in it.
  • Wu Ch'êng-ên's name is printed "Wu Ch'eng-en".
  
  {{BREAK}} Authors, sources, and dates as noted in the book: "The Death Sentence" is from The Indian Antiquary, I. "The Annihilation of the Ogres" is from Folk Tales of Bengal. "The Story of Cecilia" is from De Divinatione, I, 46. "Hard to Please" is from Kitabal ida el farid, III. "The Dream of Chuang Tzu" is from Chuang Tzu. "A Golem" is from Sanhedrin, 65, b. "The Return of the Master" is from Magic and Mystery in Tibet. "In Fear of Wrath" is from Nanadir. Andromeda is from Note-books. "The King's Promise" is from Heimskringla, 91 - 92. "The Captive's Oath" is from the Third Night of the Book of The Thousand and One Nights. "Nosce Te Ipsum" is from Antología de espejos. "The Intuitive One" is from El deslinde. "The King's Awakening" is from Rambling Thoughts on World History. "Death of a Chief" is from Bocetos de un asistente. "The Announcement" is from Gleanings in Caledonian Byways. "The Explanation" is from Addenda to a History of Freethinking. "An Alexandrian Myth" is from La modification du Passé ou la seule base de la Tradition. "The Work and the Poet" is from Indica. "Eugenics" is from Ben Ionsiana. "The Mendicant of Naples" is from Le Cornet à dés. "A God Abandons Alexandria" is from The Parallel Lives of Plutarch. "The Female Disciple" is from Chuang Tzu. "The Ninth Slave" is from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter LXV. "A Victor" is from Idea de un Príncipe Político-cristiano, XCVI. "The Dangerous Wonder-Worker" is from Brigham Young. "The Castle" is from Jacques le Fataliste. "The Statue" is from the ninth paragraph of the treatise Of Isis and Osiris. "The Warning" is from 1001 Nights, II, 141. "The Prowess of Villena" is from the Antología de Poetas Líricos Castellanos. "The Shadow of the Moves, I" is from The Week-End Companion to Wales and Cornwall. "The Shadow of the Moves, II" is from Cabotaje en Mozambique. "The Culpable Eyes" is from H'adiquat el Afrah. "The Prophet, the Bird, and the Net" is from Siradj el Moluk. "The Celestial Deer" is from Chinese Ghouls and Goblins. "The Cook" is from Le Cornet a Des. "Polemicists" is from "Cincuenta anos en Gorchs" (Medio siglo en campos de Buenos Aires, Alovarria, 1911). "Perplexities of the Coward" is from Mostatref. "The Restitution of the Keys" is from the treatise Taanith, of the Mishnah, Ch. XXIX. "Trained Sepulchres" is from Tusculanae Disputationes, Bk. 1. "The Silence of the Sirens" is from The Great Wall of China, trans. by Willa and Edwin Muir, New York, 1948. "The Blow" is from Essays in Little. "The Pattern on the Carpet" is from The London Adventure. "The Story of the Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths" is from The Land of Midian Revisited. "The Greater Torment" is from Dreams. "Theology" is from Tout lou Mond, Oloron-Saint-Marie. "The Magnet" is from Chapter 13 of The Life of Oscar Wilde. "The Face of Death" is from Le Grand Écart. "The Miracle" is from A Writer's Notebook (London, 1949 - 1951). "Two Co-Eternals" is from Animadversiones. "Social Success" is from Trivia. "A Provocation Punished" is from Kitab en Nanadir. "Tale" is from Histoires Brisées. Prestigieux, Sans Doute is from Fantasmorgias. "The Ubiquitous One, I" is from Geschichte der indischen Literatur. "The Ubiquitous One, II" is from Cuarenta años en el lecho del Ganges. "The Sect of the White Lotus" is from Chinesische Volksmärchen. "Protection Through the Book" is from Chinese Ghouls and Goblins. "The Meeting" is from La Tarif de Marseille. "The Water on the Island" is from The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. "On Exactitude in Science" is from Viajes de Varones Prudents, libro cuarto, cap. XIV (Lerida, 1658). "The Dedicated Student" is from Japanische Literatur. "The Vicissitudes of Consolation" is from A Grove of Leisure. "Distracted" is from Un barbare en Asie. "The Egyptian Temptation" is from Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, Author's Preface. "Retrospective" is from Informe sobre la conduction de haciendas en pie en balsas entree Villa Constitution y Campana. "The Spectator" is from Don Juan Tenorio, Act III, Scene 2. "Conclusion for a Fantasy" is from Visitations. "Four Reflections" is from The Great Wall of China, trans. by Willa and Edwin Muir, New York, 1948. "Storywith Foxes" is from Ling kuai lu. "Just in Case" is from The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, II, 15 (trans. by John Stevens and Lionel Jane, London, 1944) "Odin" is from Antiguas literaturas germanicas. Aurea Mediocritas is from Les Historiettes, XXIX.