Jorge Luis Borges Best Works - April 2024

Borges: Selected Poems

Though universally acclaimed for his dazzling fictions, Jorge Luis Borges always considered himself first and foremost a poet. This new bilingual selection brings together some two hundred poems--the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English, including scores of poems never previously translated. Edited by Alexander Coleman, the selection draws from a lifetime's work--from Borges' first published volume of verse, Fervor de Buenos Aires (1923), to his final work, Los Conjurados, published just a year before his death in 1986. Throughout this unique collection the brilliance... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140587217
• ASIN: 0140587217
• ISBN: 0140587217
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Collected Fictions

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume   From Jorge Luis Borges’s 1935 debut with The Universal History of Iniquity, through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, these enigmatic, elaborate, imaginative inventions display his talent for turning fiction on its head by playing with form and genre and toying with language. Together these incomparable works comprise the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140286802
• ASIN: 0140286802
• ISBN: 0140286802
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism   It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and culture—though revered in Latin America and Europe as among his finest work—have scarcely been translated into English.

• ASIN: 0140290117
• ASIN: 0140290117
• ISBN: 9780140290110
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin

The Aleph and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges’s most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house.  This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142437883
• ASIN: 0142437883
• ISBN: 0142437883
• Brand: Penguin Books
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

Ficciones

• ASIN: B00XUYQUZ2
• ASIN: B00XUYQUZ2
• Manufacturer: Grove Press

Labyrinths (New Directions Paperbook)

• ASIN: B06XPV8F3Z
• ASIN: B06XPV8F3Z
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

An NYRB Classics OriginalThus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writer “better captures the magic ins... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00MDHNNPC
• ASIN: B00MDHNNPC
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

On Mysticism (Penguin Classics)

An unprecedented collection of the visionary Argentine writer’s meditations on the mystical realm   Jorge Luis Borges immersed himself and his readers in metaphysical fantasies—playing reason against faith, belief against logic. His profound knowledge of eastern religions was an endless source of inspiration for his writing. On Mysticism—edited by Borges’s widow, Maria Kodama—brings together a stunning group of prose pieces and poems that speak to this signature theme of his writing, from some of his most celebrated works to others that appear here in English for the first time. Tog... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0143105698
• ASIN: 0143105698
• ISBN: 0143105698
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Mad Apprentice: The Forbidden Library: Volume 2

The dark and thrilling sequel to the book Kirkus called, "Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, and Inkheart all rolled into one"Alice has her first adventure outside Geryon's library after he volunteers her to work with five other apprentice Readers, including Isaac, to capture a rogue apprentice who murdered his master. But none of them realize that the library of the late rival Reader is still a working deadly labyrinth, or that the vicious guardian is still protecting it. As they face the fight of their lives, Alice learns much more about Isaac, Geryon (her own master), and the fate of her fa... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0142426822
• ASIN: 0142426822
• ISBN: 0142426822
• Brand: Puffin Books
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

Great Spanish and Latin American Short Stories of the 20th Century/Grandes cuentos españoles y latinoamericanos del siglo XX: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Spanish)

This bilingual anthology reflects the geographic and cultural diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. Encompassing the literary traditions of Central America, South America, and Spain, the stories range in mood from comic and ironic to gritty and fantastical. Featured authors include Silvina Ocampo, Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Augusto Roa Bastos, Gloria Guardia, Paloma Díaz-Mas, José María Merino, Enrique Jaramillo Levi, and others. This inexpensive volume offers intermediate-level students the convenient, accessible format of English translations on pages facing the original text. This is a sel... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0486476243
• UPC: 800759476244
• ASIN: 0486476243
• ISBN: 0486476243
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Cinco maestros: Cuentos modernos de Hispanoamérica (Spanish Edition)

The five outstanding authors in this anthology have created remarkably distinctive worlds of their own, worlds that are well reflected in the stories included here. The stories representing each author might be said to function like a mobile: considered separately, they are unique and interesting pieces of art, while together they form a recognizable pattern and give an impression of the author's imaginative world. The anthology as a whole then becomes a collection of such literary mobiles, a vivid exhibition that testifies to the high level of brilliance achieved by contemporary Spanish-Ameri... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0155075519
• ASIN: 0155075519
• ISBN: 0155075519
• Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Everything and Nothing (New Directions Pearls)

A pocket-sized Pearls edition of some of Borges’ best fictions and essays.Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges’ highly influential work―written in the 1930s and ‘40s―that foresaw the internet (“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius”), quantum mechanics (“The Garden of Forking Paths”), and cloning (“Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote”). David Foster Wallace described Borges as  “scalp-crinkling . . . Borges’ work is designed primarily as metaphysical arguments...to transcend individual consciousness.”

• ASIN: 081121883X
• ASIN: 081121883X
• ISBN: 9780811218832
• Brand: New Directions
• Manufacturer: New Directions

Los mejores relatos fantasticos de habla hispana / The Best Fantastic Stories from the Spanish Language (Serie Roja / Red Series) (Spanish Edition)

Presents eleven short stories in which reality and fantasy intertwine, including works by such modern Spanish and Latin American authors as Jorge Luis Borges, Cristina Fernâandez Cubas, Carlos Fuentes, and Ana Marâia Matute.

• ASIN: 8420449342
• ASIN: 8420449342
• ISBN: 8420449342
• Brand: Alfaguara
• Manufacturer: Alfaguara

Antologia de la Literatura Fantastica/ Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Narrativa / Narrative) (Spanish Edition)

Antologia de la Literatura Fantastica/ Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Narrativa / Narrative) (Spanish Edition) [paperback] Borges, Jorge Luis,Random House Mondadori [Apr 30, 2006] ... 9500705877

• ASIN: 9500705877
• ASIN: 9500705877
• ISBN: 9500705877
• Brand: Brand: Sudamericana (Argentina)
• Manufacturer: Sudamericana

Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy

The author of Solaris critiques science fiction in a collection of provocative essays. Celebrated science fiction master Stanislaw Lem turns his always sharp and insightful pen to criticism in this bold and controversial analysis of the genre for which he is most known. In this collection of ten essays—ranging from an introspective examination of his own biographical and literary history to biting scrutiny of fellow authors and their works—Lem takes a keen look at the influence, shortcomings, merit, and importance of science fiction, touching on topics from Philip K. Dick (“a genius amon... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008R2JMR0
• ASIN: B008R2JMR0
• Manufacturer: Mariner Books

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Jorge Luis Borges, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Aleph and Other Stories, Ficciones, a Universal History of Infamy, and More

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 512172411