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The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' MARIO VARGAS LLOSA THE BOOK OF SAND was the last of Borges' major collections to be published. The stories are, in his words, …
Collected Fictions
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 "An event, and …
The Aleph and Other Stories
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 …
A Universal History of Iniquity
Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or …
The Book of Imaginary Beings: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter S s with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and …
A Universal History of Iniquity
In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the …
The Assault
In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, …
Brodie's Report
At the age of seventy, after a gap of twenty years, Jorge Luis Borges returned to writing short stories. In Brodie s Report, he returned also to the style of his earlier years with …
Brodie's Report
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, …
Singing from the Well
His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot …