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On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classic Fiction | 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.
Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. "Poems of the Night" is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly t ...Show more
Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges (New Directions)
Category: Culture
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
Selected Non Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Fiction
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, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante ...Show more
Seven Nights by BORGES JORGE LUIS
Category: Culture
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges erudition on the following topics: Dante s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sis with Jorge Luis Borges's 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's ...Show more
The Book of Imaginary Beings (Deluxe Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
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 Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory by Jorge Luis Borges; Andrew Hurley (Translator)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Translated with an Afterword by Andrew Hurley 'His stories - concise, playful, brimming with ideas - are among the century's supreme literary achievements' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY While Borges remained fascinated by books, doubles, strange heresies, magic and the occult, his last two collections broke ne ...Show more
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classic 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)
Category: Art and Design | 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
Category: Fiction
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 Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Australian | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explored philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions.