Format:
Book
Title:
Collected fictions / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
Author:
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.
Call Number:
FIC BORGES J
Edition:
Penguin classics deluxe edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
©1998
Description:
ix, 565 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"This edition at last brings together all of Borges' magical stories, and all of them newly rendered into English in a superb translation by Andrew Hurley. Collected Fictions is the perfect one-volume compendium for all those who have long loved Borges, and the perfect introduction to the master's work for all those who have yet to discover him."--BOOK JACKET.
Series:
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Penguin classics deluxe edition.
Subjects:
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
Argentine fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
Immortalism -- Fiction.
Labyrinths -- Fiction.
Outlaws -- Fiction.
Adult core collection.
Genre:
Short stories.
Other Author:
Hurley, Andrew.
Contents:
A Universal History of Iniquity (1935) -- The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell -- The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro -- The Widow Ching - Pirate -- Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities -- The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan -- The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke -- Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv -- Man on Pink Corner -- Et cetera -- Tlon, 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 -- Funes, His Memory -- The Shape of the Sword -- The 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 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 -- Averroes' Search -- The Zahir -- The Writing of the God -- Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth -- The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths -- The Wait -- The Man on the Threshold -- The Aleph -- 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 -- Martin Fierro -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the Palace -- Everything and Nothing -- Ragnarok -- Inferno, I, 32 -- Borges and I -- On Exactitude in Science -- In Memoriam, J.F.K. -- The Ethnographer -- Pedro Salvadores -- Legend -- A Prayer -- His End and His Beginning -- The Interloper -- Unworthy -- The Story from Rosendo Juarez -- The Encounter -- Juan Murana -- The Elderly Lady -- The Duel -- The Other Duel -- Guayaquil -- The Gospel According to Mark -- Brodie's Report -- 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's Utopia -- The Bribe -- Avelino Arredondo -- The Disk -- The Book of Sand -- August 25, 1983 -- Blue Tigers -- The Rose of Paracelsus -- Shakespeare's Memory.
ISBN:
9780140286809 (trade)
9780670849703 (alk. paper)
0670849707 (alk. paper)