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1	Ficciones more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist By common consent, the Argentinian Jorge Luis Borges (18990-1986) is one of the greatest writers to have emerged from Latin America. His finest work is "Ficciones" (1944), a collection of brilliantly-crafted, essay-like short stories. This edition, updated from the original 1976 edition by the same authors, offers a comprehensive selection of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Labyrinths; selected stories & other writings. more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist 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". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Book of Imaginary Beings more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Few readers will want, or be able to resist this modern bestiary. Here, you will find the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. Borges' cunning and humourous commentary is sheer delight. see all copies from $2.99! new only from $8.72! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Collected Fictions more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through the influential collections "Ficciones" and "The Aleph", to his final work from the 1980s, "Shakespeare Memory". see all copies from $4.56! new only from $11.80! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the Underworld more books like this by Herbert Asbury add to wishlist First published in 1927, this classic has long had a cult following because of its keenly observed and gritty rendering of old New York, and of the habitues of neighborhoods such as the Five Points, the Lower East Side, and the waterfront. Asbury writes of gangs which predated the rise of the mafia--gangs with colorful names such as the Bowery ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Labyrinths more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, James E Irby (Editor), Donald A Yates (Editor) add to wishlist A generous anthology of Borges's work, including short stories about such things as imaginary universes, mysterious parables, and Chestertonian detective puzzles. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Dreamtigers. more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist "Dreamtigers" has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of "Great Books of the Western World". It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, "Dreamtigers" at first glance appears to be ... see all copies from $4.49! new only from $6.30! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Abriendo Puertas more books like this by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist see all copies from $18.26! new only from $37.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Aleph and Other Stories more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters. see all copies from $2.94! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Borges: Selected Non-Fictions: Volume 3 more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Translator), Esther Allen (Translator) add to wishlist This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes. see all copies from $8.74! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The book of sand more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $3.23! new only from $33.95! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952 more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms. Borges comments on such literary figures as Pascal, Coleridge, Cervantes, Hawthorne, Whitman, Valery, Wilde, Shaw, and Kafka. ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $18.65! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A personal anthology more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist After almost a half a century of scrupulous devotion to his art, Jorge Luis Borges personally compiled this anthology of his work--short stories, essays, poems, and brief mordant "sketches," which, in Borges's hands, take on the dimensions of a genre unique in modern letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.34! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Doctor Brodie's report more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor Brodie's Report". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.99! \| first editions
15 view cover	El Aleph more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Jorge Luis Borges retoma en este libro sus temas favoritos dandoles un imprevisto y deslumbrante planteo. En cada relato arriesga una nueva vision del universo fantastico. Quienes buscan al escritor brillante de los interminables juegos mentales se entusiasmaran con El Zahir, Los dos reyes y los dos laberintos y Los teologos. Quienes prefieren al ... see all copies from $3.04! new only from $11.14! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	A universal history of infamy more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $2.20! new only from $13.65! \| first editions
17	The Aleph and other stories, 1933-1969, together with commentaries and an autobiographical essay. more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $2.97! first editions \| SVS
18	The Book of Fantasy more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist A collection of fantasy stories which includes stories by James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Ursula Leguin, Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde J.G Ballard, Franz Kafka..... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $49.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	This Craft of Verse more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Through a twist of fate that the author of "Labyrinths" himself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long love affair with literature and the English language. Transcribed from tapes only recently discovered, "This Craft of Verse" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.72! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Borges on Writing more books like this by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni (Editor), Jorge Luis Borges, Daniel Halpern (Editor) add to wishlist Borges On Writing In 1971, Jorge Luis Borges was invited to preside over a series of seminars on his writing at Columbia University. This book is a record of those seminars, which took the form of informal discussions between Borges, Norman Thomas di Giovanni--his editor and translator, Frank MacShane--then head of the writing program at Columbia, ... see all copies from $6.86! new only from $7.95! \| first editions
21 view cover	Seven Nights more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Translator) add to wishlist These essays were originally given as lectures in Buenos Aires by the blind Jorge Luis Borges, in 1977. He delivered them entirely from memory, including their copious quotations, and they were transcribed by others. Borges's topics include Dante, Buddhism, nightmares, and (the last lecture) blindness. This brief volume encapsulates everything ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $71.13! \| first editions
22	The Borges Reader more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Emir R Monegal (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman add to wishlist When Viking published Borges's Collected Fictions last September, the book received nationwide acclaim. Richard Bernstein in The New York Times hailed the publication as "an event, and cause for celebration." The celebration continues this April with the next installment in Vikings projected three-volume set of the Collected Work: a new selection ... see all copies from $18.00! new only from $56.02! \| first editions
24 view cover	Borges: Selected Poems: Volume 2 more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Alexander Coleman (Editor) add to wishlist This unparalleled and long-overdue volume of poetry is by "the most important Spanish writer since Cervantes" (Mario Vargas Llosa). First serial to "New Yorker, Harper's, " the "New York Review of Books, " the "Los Angeles Book Review" and the "New Criterion." see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.04! \| SVS
25 view cover	Fictions more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist 'Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. Now we can see it in all its intense and disturbing brilliance, certain that we will never see anything like it again' - Justin Cartwright, "Independent on Sunday". see all copies from $2.95! new only from $12.69!

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