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Collected Fictions
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by Jorge Luis Borges (Author) (edit contributors)

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The New York Times bestseller, "a marvelous new collection of stories by . . . one of the most remarkable writers of our century" --Richard Bernstein, The New York Times Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century. Now for the first time in English,... read more

Books in This Collection

  1. A Universal History of Iniquity

    A Universal History of Iniquity

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author), Andrew Hurley

    In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun. Here he reveals his delight in re-creating (or making up) colorful stories from the Orient, the Islamic world, and the Wild West, as well as his horrified ...

  2. Ficciones

    Ficciones

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    Ficciones es una obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea que merece su lugar destacado en cualquier canon de la literatura universal. Aquí se reúnen dos libros de Borges: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) que incluye...

  3. The Aleph

    The Aleph

    And Other Stories

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    El trabajo que da titulo a Historia de la eternidad se ocupa del tiempo y de su negacion y examina dos concepciones contrapuestas de eternidad: la alejandrina, de raiz platonica, y la cristiana, nacida con la doctrina trinitaria de Ireneo y...

  4. El Hacedor

    El Hacedor

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    Text: Spanish

  5. In Praise of Darkness

    In Praise of Darkness

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    Text: English, Spanish (translation)

  6. Doctor Brodie's Report

    Doctor Brodie's Report

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    This collection of 11 short stories includes "The Gospel According to Mark", "The Unworthy Friend", "The Duel", "The End of the Duel", "Rosendo's Tale", "The Intruder", "The Meeting", "Juan Mruana", "The Elder Lady", "Guayaquil" and "Doctor...

  7. The Book of Sand

    The Book of Sand

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    '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...

  8. La memoria de Shakespeare

    La memoria de Shakespeare

    by Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

    Text: Spanish

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In 1517, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

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A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935)

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the 1954 Edition

"The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell"
"The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro"
"The Widow Ching--Pirate"
"Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Initquities"
"The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan"
"The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké"
"Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv"
"Man on Pink Corner"
"Et cetera"

Index of Sources

FICTIONS (1944)

The Garden of Forking Paths (1941)

Foreword

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius"
"The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim"
"Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"
"The Circular Ruins"
"The Lottery in Babylon"
"A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain"
"The Library of Babel"
"The Garden of Forking Paths"

Artifices (1944)

Foreword

"Funes, His Memory"
"The Shape of the Sword"
"Theme of the Traitor and the Hero"
"Death and the Compass"
"The Secret Miracle"
"Three Versions of Judas"
"The End"
"The Cult of the Phoenix"
"The South"

THE ALEPH (1949)

"The Immortal"
"The Dead Man"
"The Theologians"
"Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden"
"A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829–1874)"
"Emma Zunz"
"The House of Asterion"
"The Other Death"
"Deutsches Requiem"
"Averroës's Search"
"The Zahir"
"The Writing of the God"
"Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labryinth"
"The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths"
"The Wait"
"The Man on the Threshold"
"The Aleph"

Afterword

THE MAKER (1960)

Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones

"The Maker"
"Dreamtigers"
"A Dialog About a Dialog"
"Toenails"
"Covered Mirrors"
"Argumentum Ornithologicum"
"The Captive"
"The Mountebank"
"Delia Elena San Marco"
"A Dialog Between Dead Men"
"The Plot"
"A Problem"
"The Yellow Rose"
"The Witness"
"Martín Fierro"
"Mutations"
"Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote"
"Paradiso, XXXI, 108"
"Parable of the Palace"
"Everything and Nothing"
"Ragnarök"
"Inferno, I, 32"
"Borges and I"

Museum

"On Exactitude in Science"
"In Memoriam, J.F.K."

Afterword

IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS (1969)

Foreword

"The Ethnographer"
"Pedro Salvadores"
"Legend"
"A Prayer"
"His End and His Beginning"

BRODIE'S REPORT (1970)

Foreword

"The Interloper"
"Unworthy"
"The Story of Resendo Juárez"
"The Encounter"
"Juan Muraña"
"The Elderly Lady"
"The Duel"
"The Other Duel"
"Guayaquil"
"The Gospel According to Mark"
"Brodie's Report"

THE BOOK OF SAND (1975)

"The Other"
"Ulrikke"
"The Congress"
"There Are More Things"
"The Sect of the Thirty"
"The Night of the Gifts"
"The Mirror and the Mask"
"Undr"
"A Weary Man Utopia"
"The Bribe"
"Avelino Arredondo"
"The Disk"
"The Book of Sand"

Afterword

SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY (1983)

"August 25,1983"
"Blue Tigers"
"The Rose of Paracelsus"
"Shakespeare's Memory"

A Note on Translation

Acknowledgments

Notes to the Fictions

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Jorge Luis Borges (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Andrew Hurley (Translator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: Spanish
Publisher: NY: Viking ()
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0670849707
Page Count: 576

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