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title: "The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic"
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price: "R765"
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# The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

**Brand:** alberto manguelgianni guadalupigraham greenfieldjames cook
**Price:** R765
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- **What is this?** The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic by alberto manguelgianni guadalupigraham greenfieldjames cook
- **How much does it cost?** R765 with free shipping
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a Fun Book to Peruse Endlessly
*by R***Y on November 14, 2020*

Having just yesterday received my copy of this book, I clearly have not read all of it. Looking at the size, why did I purchase such a strange book. This morning, with my first coffee of the day, I decided to leaf through it and immediately found a reference to “Gormenghast” by Mervyn Peake, one of my all-time favorites. Then there was this little snippet from Francois Rabelais’ "Gargantua and Pantagruel" about The Sea of Frozen Words: “… In winter, all words and sounds in the area are frozen; as the milder weather approaches in spring, they begin to thaw out and can be clearly heard. Travelers can pick up the frozen words, which resemble crystalized sweets of various colors." That alone makes this purchase worthwhile. Then I flipped the pages again and saw a piece about the Fuddles in "The Emerald City of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. Another was "The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-popple" by Edward Lear. What a delight. I didn’t want to leave after I finished my coffee, but life intervenes and I will look forward to returning to this lovely book time and time again.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Forget the boring boogeyman scary stories
*by L***L on September 11, 2017*

This book is a must have for story tellers and highly visual artists...the rich history of human folklore blooms vividly as you read each tale. Forget the boring boogeyman scary stories...go full-color imagination as you read this gem. All that's missing is the actual smell of the characters, no kidding...this book is riveting, making you drift off to imaginary worlds with every sentence. It's a great read for thespians, too! Gets you out of your creative rut and sends you careening into fantasy worlds. I bought it to inspire my murals, oh, my, the places I'd go if this were real! You have to get this book for fall/winter blustery night tales. (Unpaid endorsement!). Get it!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Atlas of Whimsy
*by J***M on March 20, 2006*

I got this book when I was bed-ridden with the flu to help me cope with the days and nights of dizzy spells and the blahs. It not only got me through the ordeal but still serves me well when I want to take an imaginary trip to "Neverland", meaning the realms of childhood and adulthood wonderment. The book doesn't include places that might occupy corners of our own dreary work-a-day world, but those "over the rainbow" places created by talented fabulists who take their readers on magical journeys. Not all the places are pleasant.They are not necessarily utopias. Some of the places are those you might have visited in a nightmare. But they are nonetheless places to which you may want to travel...or revisit, if you've read the stories using the places as a setting. In some cases, it may motivate the browser to read the works from which the descriptions are derived. From the quasi-mathematical vistas of Flatland to the dreamscapes of Windsor Mackay's Slumberland, this travelogue will provide the armchair voyager with many hours of pleasure.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-15*