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  • Publication: The Penguin Book of DragonsPublication Record # 858790
  • Editor: Scott G. Bruce
  • Date: 2021-10-12
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-313504-3 [0-14-313504-X]
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Pub. Series: Penguin Classics
  • Price:
    $18.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: xxiv+351
  • Format:
    tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Cover: The Penguin Book of Dragons by Anato Finnstark
  • Notes:
    • Only date is 2021 year in copyright and LoC Cataloging-in-Publication data block
    • Date from Amazon.com as of 2021-09-23
    • "1st Printing"
    • Cover artist credit from rear cover
    • Other prices: Canada C$24.00, U.K. £$12.99
    • LCCN per copyright page
    • Book is divided into sections. Each section has a brief (a short page) essay introducing the theme of the section.
    • Authors are not listed on content title page. Each title has an endnote specifying the author / translator.
    • Each excerpt/story is preceded, on title page, with an introduction to the excerpt/story
    • Contains excerpts from histories, lives of saints, etc. that would be considered fantasy today, but were believed and written as nonfiction. Content types for excerpts have been based on the type of the work the excerpt was taken from.
    • "Biblical Beasts" contains 4 excerpts from the Bible, each with its own subtitle: "(A) The Serpent in the Garden", "(B) The Leviathan of the Deep", "(C) The Dragon of Babylon", and "(D) The Seven-Headed Horror of the End Times"
    • "Descendants of Darkness" contains 3 excerpts from the Acts of Philip, each with its own subtitle: "(A) Against the Snake Cult", "(B) The Nature of the Dragon", and "(C) The City of the Serpents"
    • "Winged Dragons of the North" contains 2 excerpt from Saga of Ketil Trout, each with its own subtitle: "(A) The Hunter Becomes the Hunted" and "(B) Rescued from the Dragon's Maw"
    • "The Devil Is the Largest Serpent" contains 3 excerpts from a medieval bestiary, each with its own subtitle: "The Panther", "The Dragon", and "The Peridexion Tree"
    • "Four Saintly Dragon-Slayers" contains 4 excerpts from The Golden Legends, each with its own subtitle: "(A) St. George, Dragon's Bane", "(B) St. Sylvester Muzzles a Monster", "(C) St. Margaret, Breaker of Drakes", and "(D) St. Martha Tames the Tarasque"
    • For both of Yei Theodora Ozaki's stories, Ozaki is listed as translator and not author
    • Pages 323-341 contain endnotes
    • Pages 343-344 contain additional credits
    • Pages 345-351 contain an index
  • External IDs:
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Anthology Title: The Penguin Book of Dragons • anthology by Scott G. Bruce

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