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On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
In the tradition of such writing guides as "The Writing Life" by Annie Dillard, "On Writing" is a master class in the art by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners. Now available for the first time in an English-language edition.
Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics
Revered for his magnificent works of fiction, Jorge Luis Borges thought of himself primarily as a poet. "Poems of the Night" is a moving collection of the great literary visionary's poetic meditations on nighttime, darkness, and the crepuscular world of visions and dreams, themes that speak implicitly t ...Show more
Selected Non Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Non-Fiction
This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in his essays, reviews, lectures, and political and cultural notes, a vortex for seemingly the entire universe: Dante ...Show more
Seven Nights by BORGES JORGE LUIS
Category: Non-Fiction
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges erudition on the following topics: Dante s The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends twenty illustrations by Peter Sis with Jorge Luis Borges's 1957 compilation of 116 "strange creatures conceived through time and space by the human imagination," from dragons and centaurs to Lewis Carroll's Cheshire Cat and the Morlocks of H. G. Wells's ...Show more
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'These labyrinthine short stories dissolve the boundary between reality and illusion and describe the limits of infinity.
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Classics
Introducing 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 Jorge Luis Borges remains one of the most influential short story writers of the twentieth century, whose spe ...Show more
The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics
This landmark collection brings together for the first time in any language all of the sonnets of Jorge Luis Borges. More intimate and personally revealing than his fiction, and more classical in form than the inventive metafictions that are his hallmark, the sonnets reflect Borges in full maturity, pa ...Show more
The Total Library: Non-fiction, 1922-1986 by Jorge Luis Borges
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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.