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A Universal History of Iniquity by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, gentlemanly scoundrels, evil wizards, pirates and false prophets. In his writing, Bo ...Show more
Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie's Reportand In Praise of Darknesshe returned also to the style of his earlier years with its brutal realism, its nightmares and its bloodshed. Many of these stories, such as 'Unworthy' and ...Show more
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated y Andrew Hurley
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Category: Fiction
From Jorge Luis Borges's 1935 debut withThe Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. ...Show more
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction
The seventeen pieces in "Ficciones" demonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant r ...Show more
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
"FICTIONS is perhaps the single most mysterious and extraordinary collection of short stories written this century. Influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes, Borges is nethertheless a complete original who can turn dry logical puzzles in to enchanting fables. The Piec ...Show more
Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more
On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
In the tradition of such writing guides as "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard, "On Writing" is a master class in the art by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners. Now available for the first time in an English-language edition.
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sis with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's ...Show more
The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated with an Afterword by Andrew Hurley 'His stories - concise, playful, brimming with ideas - are among the century's supreme literary achievements' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY While Borges remained fascinated by books, doubles, strange heresies, magic and the occult, his last two collections broke ne ...Show more
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'These labyrinthine short stories dissolve the boundary between reality and illusion and describe the limits of infinity.