Jorge Luis Borges (In Our Time)

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  • The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

    • ASIN: 0142437883
    • ISBN: 0142437883
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting ... [Read More]

  • Collected Fictions

    • ASIN: 0140286802
    • ISBN: 0140286802
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume   From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate... [Read More]

  • Ficciones

    • ASIN: 0802130305
    • ISBN: 0802130305
    • Brand: Grove Press
    • Manufacturer: Grove Press

  • Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook)

    • ASIN: 0811216993
    • ISBN: 0811216993
    • Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • Manufacturer: New Directions

    The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century―a true literary sensation―with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over hal... [Read More]

  • Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century/Grandes cuentos españoles y latinoamericanos del siglo XX: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)

    • UPC: 800759476244
    • ASIN: 0486476243
    • ISBN: 0486476243
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    This bilingual anthology reflects the geographic and cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. Encompassing the literary traditions of Central America, South America, and Spain, the stories range in mood from comic and ironic to gritty and fantastical. Featured authors include Silvina Ocampo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Augusto Roa Bastos, Gloria... [Read More]

  • Spanish Short Stories 1 / Cuentos hispánicos 1 (Parallel Text) (v. 1) (Spanish and English Edition)

    • ASIN: 0140025006
    • ISBN: 0140025006
    • Brand: Franco, Jean
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Excellent reading in either Spanish or English, the eight short stories in this collection by authors including Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Márquez and Camilo José Cela have been chosen for their readability and literary merit. Seven are from Spanish America, only one from Spain, an unsurprising ratio considering there are no less than nine... [Read More]

  • Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

    • ASIN: 0140290117
    • ISBN: 9780140290110
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism   It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politic... [Read More]

  • Borges: Selected Poems

    • ASIN: 0140587217
    • ISBN: 0140587217
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, th... [Read More]

  • Ficciones (Spanish Edition)

    • ASIN: 0307950921
    • ISBN: 9780307950925
    • Brand: Vintage Books
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Espanol

    “Pensé en un laberinto de laberintos, en un sinuoso laberinto creciente que abarcara el pasado y el porvenir y que implicara de algún modo los astros”. —Jorge Luis Borges Ficciones es quizá el libro más reconocido de Jorge Luis Borges, compuesto por los libros El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan y Artificios, ambos considerados piezas... [Read More]

  • Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

    • ASIN: B00MDHNNPC
    • Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

    An NYRB Classics OriginalThus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes t... [Read More]

  • THREE SECONDS

    • ASIN: 1402785925
    • ISBN: 1402785925
    • Manufacturer: SILVER OAK

    Dark, suspenseful, and more riveting than any thriller at the local cineplex, Three Seconds is the latest novel from best-selling Swedish duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström-heirs apparent to Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell as the masters of Scandinavian crime. Piet Hoffman, a top secret operative for the Swedish police, is about to embark o... [Read More]

  • 7 best short stories by G. K. Chesterton

    • ASIN: B07MTT5Z1R
    • Manufacturer: Tacet Books

    Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English journalist and writer, born in London on May 29, 1874. He was educated at St. Paul's School and then joined the Slade School of London to study arts. His family was Anglican, but in 1922 Chesterton was converted to Catholicism by influence of the writer Hilaire Belloc with whom maintained great friendship. Ch... [Read More]

  • Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

    • ASIN: 0374126003
    • ISBN: 0374126003
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories―originally published from 1985 to 2012―offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians.While the Australian master Gerald Murnane�... [Read More]

  • A Short Stay in Hell

    • ASIN: 098374842X
    • ISBN: 098374842X
    • Brand: Brand: Strange Violin Editions
    • Manufacturer: Strange Violin Editions

    An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he'll be reunited with his loved ones in an eternal hereafter. Then, he dies. Soren wakes to find himself cast by a God he has never heard of into a Hell whose dimensions he can barely grasp: a vast library he can only escape from by finding the book that contains t... [Read More]

  • Italian Short Stories 1: Parallel Text Edition (Penguin Parallel Text) (v. 1) (Italian Edition)

    • ASIN: 0140021965
    • ISBN: 0140021965
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal rather than literary, and there are notes and biographies to help the student of Italian. However, the volume can also be helpful to... [Read More]

  • Spanish Stories / Cuentos Españoles (A Dual-Language Book) (English and Spanish Edition)

    • UPC: 800759253999
    • ASIN: 0486253996
    • ISBN: 0486253996
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Designed for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative Spanish short stories. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in Spanish, the stories are presented both in Spanish and English, enabling students to learn a language whi... [Read More]

  • The Book of Imaginary Beings (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    • ASIN: 0143039938
    • ISBN: 9780143039938
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

    In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sís 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 The Time Machine. A lavish feast of exotica ... [Read More]

  • The Book of Fantasy

    • ASIN: 0881846562
    • ISBN: 0881846562
    • Brand: Brand: Carroll n Graf Pub
    • Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf Pub

    Gathers stories by Ballard, Bierce, Bradbury, Chesterton, Cortazar, Hawthorne, Joyce, Kafka, Kipling, de la Mare, de Maupassant, Poe, Saki, Shelley, Stapledon, Traven, Voltaire, Wharton, and Wilde

  • 7 best short stories by Edgar Allan Poe

    • ASIN: 857777998X
    • ISBN: 857777998X
    • Manufacturer: Tacet Books

    This is a collection of the 7 best short stories of one of the most read horror, detective and science fiction authors ever to have been published, Edgar Allan Poe. This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit an... [Read More]

  • We Others: New & Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

    • ASIN: 030774342X
    • ISBN: 030774342X
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    PEN/Faulkner Award FinalistFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination.Steven Millhauser’s fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, l... [Read More]

  • Jorge Luis Borges (In Our Time)

    2/21/18 - Borges short story "The Wait"

    The Legacy of Jorge Luis Borges (2007)