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ISBN: 9780141192949 - The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise Bestseller The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141192941  ISBN13: 9780141192949
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 26 Aug 2010
A collection of essays that 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". It examines the very nature of our lives... More

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ISBN: 9780141195810 - The Widow Ching-pirate The Widow Ching-pirate
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141195819  ISBN13: 9780141195810
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Feb 2011
Features five stories about danger on the high seas, an ungracious teacher of etiquette and an encyclopaedia of an unknown planet. This book includes "The Widow Ching-Pirate", "Monk Eastman", "Purveyor of Iniquities", "The Uncivil Teacher of Court... More

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ISBN: 9780141183848 - Fictions Bestseller Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141183845  ISBN13: 9780141183848
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2000
Offers a mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time and classical themes. 'Nobody before Borges had ever attempted this strange and wonderful mixture of arcana, popular literature, national myth, the nature of time... More

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ISBN: 9780141183831 - The Aleph The Aleph
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141183837  ISBN13: 9780141183831
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 2000
A collection of short stories with such themes as dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife-fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself. Borges' stories have a deceptively... More

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ISBN: 9780099442639 - The Book of Imaginary Beings The Book of Imaginary Beings
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0099442639  ISBN13: 9780099442639
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Sep 2002
Contains the familiar - Gryphons, Minotaurs and Unicorns - as well as the Monkey of the inkpot and other undeniably curious beasts. This work presents a humourous commentary. Few readers will want, or be able to resist this modern bestiary. More

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ISBN: 9780141183824 - The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141183829  ISBN13: 9780141183824
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2001
Includes the stories "The Congress", "Undr", "The Mirror and the Mask", "August 25, 1983", "Blue Tigers", "The Rose of Paracelsus" and "Shakespeare's Memory". 'One of the most remarkable artists of our age' - Mario Vargas Llosa. "The Book of Sand"... More

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ISBN: 9780141183022 - The Total Library The Total Library
Jorge Luis Borges Eliot Weinberger

ISBN10: 0141183020  ISBN13: 9780141183022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Jan 2001
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. More

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ISBN: 9781857151664 - Fictions Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 1857151666  ISBN13: 9781857151664
Publisher: Everyman Everyman's Library
Edition: New edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 May 1993
"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. More

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ISBN: 9780141183855 - A Universal History of Iniquity A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis Borges

ISBN10: 0141183853  ISBN13: 9780141183855
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Apr 2001
In 1933 a sensationalist Argentinian newspaper employed Jorge Luis Borges to produce high-brow cultural commentary. Alongside the high-toned pieces, he also contributed these quirky blood-and-guts tales of gunslingers, gentlemanly scoundrels... More

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ISBN: 9780141184845 - Labyrinths Bestseller Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges Donald A Yates, James East Irby

ISBN10: 0141184841  ISBN13: 9780141184845
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Sep 2000
A collection of author's stories, including "Library of Babel". 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... More