Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world\"s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive ...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges\" poetry ever assembled in English, including many never previously translated. The brilliance of the Spanish originals is matched with luminous English versions rendered by a remarkable cast of translators, among them W.S....

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his inspiration is unmistakable. With their deceptively simple, almost laconic style, they achieve a magical impression that is unrivalled in modern writing....

Borges\" first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun....

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 almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot\"....

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. In The Total Library, more than 150 of Borges\" most brilliant pieces are brought together for the first time in one volume - all in superb new translations....

Fifty new books, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. \"Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous....

Jorge Luis Borges es un legendario prosista, poeta y publicista argentino. La prosa de Borges se destaca ante todo por sus fantasias laconicas, refl exiones sobre problemas fi losofi cas de fondo que adoptan la forma de historias de aventuras o detectivescas....

Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora, por primera vez, se reuunen en este volumen todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados mas influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental....

A whimsical compendium of more than one hundred of the strange creatures conceived down through history by the human imagination, this unique contribution to fantasy literature ranges widely across the world\"s mythologies and literatures....

Esto quiere decir que antes de ser un libro, El aprendizaje del escritor fue oral, y que su texto comporta la traducción -o ventriloquia- de las transcripciones del seminario sobre escritura que ofreció Borges en la Universidad de......

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges highly influential work written in the 1930s and 40s that foresaw the internet (Tlon, 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......

Seven Nights collects seven lectures that were taped during the summer of 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. These recordings were later pirated as records, only to be reclaimed by Borges, who edited them for publication as a series for a Buenos Aires newspaper....

Celebrating the centennial of his birth, Everything and Nothing compiles the most anthologized and widely read fictions by Jorge Luis Borges, \\\"a giant of world literature\\\" (John Updike, The New Yorker)....

Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet....