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1	Ficciones more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist "Fictions" is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $4.95! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $4.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 $9.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	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 $2.63! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 $2.85! new only from $11.71! \| first editions
7	Abriendo Puertas more books like this by Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez add to wishlist see all copies from $6.20! new only from $38.93! \| SVS
8	Collected Fictions more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Possessor of one of the 20th Century's most fecund--and intelligent--imaginations, Jorge Luis Borges wrote on virtually everything, and in almost every conceivable form, reflecting the encyclopedic knowledge he acquired through both a rigorous education and his career as a librarian. In honor of his centennial, this three-volume edition of his ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $10.25! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 $4.98! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The book of sand more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $3.89! new only from $33.95! \| first editions
11 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 $25.00! \| first editions
12 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 $7.35! \| first editions \| SVS
13 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 $1.99! new only from $21.73! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Jorge Luis Borges Obras Completas 1 - 1923-1949 by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $38.82! new only from $38.83!
15 view cover	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 $7.91! new only from $10.93! \| first editions \| SVS
16 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 $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
17 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 $3.00! new only from $7.45! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Jorge Luis Borges Obras Completas 2 - 1952-1972 by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $35.08! new only from $35.09!
19 view cover	A universal history of infamy more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $2.49! new only from $372.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	This Craft of Verse more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist These five eloquent lectures, delivered at Harvard in 1967 and 1968 by Jorge Luis Borges, present an inquiry into the role of language in poetry. see all copies from $7.15! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Ficciones/ Fictions more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (Editor), Anthony Bonner (Translator) add to wishlist First published in 1945, his "Ficciones" compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. Borges offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. see all copies from $8.95! new only from $8.95! \| SVS
22 view cover	The book of sand and Shakespeare's memory more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Andrew Hurley add to wishlist '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, 'variations on favourite themes...combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'. It includes such marvellous tales as "The Congress", ... see all copies from $6.47! new only from $9.16! \| SVS
23	The Borges Reader more books like this by Emir R Monegal (Editor), Alastair Reid (Editor), Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24	Ficciones more books like this by Anthony Kerrigan (Editor), Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
25 view cover	Everything and Nothing more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, John M Fein (Translator), James E Irby (Translator) add to wishlist "Some of the most witty, uncannily original short fiction in Western Literature."-The New Yorker see all copies from $3.45! new only from $6.36! \| SVS

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