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Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, translated y Andrew Hurley
39.99 AUD
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
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 | 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.
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges (New Directions)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Borges takes us on a startling, idiosyncratic, fresh, and highly opinionated tour of English literature, weaving together countless cultural traditions of the last three thousand years. Borges s lectures delivered extempore by a man of extraordinary erudition bring the canon to remarkably vivid life.Now ...Show more
The Book of Imaginary Beings (Deluxe Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends 20 illustrations by Sis with Borges' 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' The Time Machine.
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.
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares; Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator); Jorge Luis Borges (Prologue by); Suzanne Jill Levine (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is ...Show more
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Jorge Luis Borges remains one of the most influential short story writers of the twentieth century, whose spe ...Show more
The Widow Ching-pirate by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction
'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor'. Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome precis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an un ...Show more
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