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The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of "1001 Nights". Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our ...Show more
The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Classics
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, pa ...Show more
The Total Library: Non-fiction, 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as an immensely prolific and beguiling writer of non-fiction prose. This title features more than 150 of Borges' pieces.
The Widow Ching-pirate by Jorge Luis Borges
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
This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Fiction
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 recen ...Show more