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1	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 $2.57! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	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 $10.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	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 $4.00! new only from $8.68! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 $9.98! new only from $10.25! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The book of sand more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist see all copies from $6.07! new only from $33.95! \| first editions
6	Borges: A Life more books like this by Edwin Williamson add to wishlist This life of the Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) looks closely at his family background, which included a slew of famous Army heroes, and at his own decision to devote his own life to liberal causes as a writer and a thinker. Using interviews, documents, and much heretofore unavailable material, Edwin Williamson concentrates on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel more books like this by William Goldbloom Bloch add to wishlist "The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $13.58! \| SVS
8	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 $7.93! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 $2.94! new only from $8.15! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Jorge Luis Borges more books like this by Professor Jaime Alazraki add to wishlist see all copies from $19.94! new only from $63.29! \| first editions \| SVS
11 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 $6.38! new only from $9.16! \| SVS
12	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 $2.50! first editions
13 view cover	Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge more books like this by Beatriz Sarlo add to wishlist Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the 20th century's most significant writers. Yet in all the critical debates on his work, the fact that he is an Argentine writer is rarely discussed, as if his world reputation had somehow cleansed him of nationality. Sarlo argues that these "universalist" readings leave aside vital aspects ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $12.38! \| first editions \| SVS
14 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 $4.14! new only from $6.28! \| SVS
15 view cover	Selected Nonfictions: Volume 1 more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Abridged by), Andrew Hurley (Translator) 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 $8.15! first editions
16	Conversations with Jorge Luis Borges more books like this add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	Borges in 90 Minutes more books like this by Paul Strathern add to wishlist Building on his enormously successful series of Philosophers in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern now applies his witty and incisive prose to brief biographical studies of the world's great writers. He brings their lives and ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The narrow act; Borges' art of allusion more books like this by Ronald J. Christ add to wishlist Includes the famous "Paris Review" interview with Borges. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
19 view cover	With Borges more books like this by Alberto Manguel add to wishlist In 1964, a blind writer (and voracious reader) in his sixties approached a sixteen-year old bookstore clerk in Buenos Aires and asked if the latter would be interested in a part-time job reading aloud. The boy accepted, and did so for four years, bringing books by Kipling, Stevenson, Henry James and many others alive three or four times a week. ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $7.18! \| SVS
20 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 $6.00! new only from $12.00! \| SVS
21	Labyrinths more books like this by George Luis Borges, Jorge Luis Borges, 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 $18.89! first editions
22 view cover	The Lesson of the Master: On Borges and His Work more books like this by Norman Thomas Di Giovanni add to wishlist Borges -- Argentine poet, essayist, and short-story writer, whose tales of fantasy and dream-worlds are classics of the 20th-century world literature - was profoundly influenced by European culture, English literature, and thinkers such as Berkeley. Since his death, Borges has been inducted into the world literary canon through the efforts of a ... see all copies from $4.05! new only from $12.63! \| SVS
23 view cover	The aleph : including the prose fictions from The Maker more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges add to wishlist Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity ... see all copies from $6.09! new only from $11.57!
24 view cover	Raid on the Articulate: Comic Eschatology in Jesus and Borges more books like this by John Dominic Crossan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Jorge Luis Borges (MCV) more books like this by William Golding, Harold Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.80!

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