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Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Jorge Luis Borges was one of those very rare creators who changed the face of an art form--in his case, the short story. His work has been paid the ultimate honor of being appropriated and imitated by innumerable writers on every continent of the world. The seventeen brief masterpieces of FICCIONES expl ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
$9.95 NZD
Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities abound, and wisps of dream and magic are layered in eternal reoccurrence. To read Labyrinths is to glide through time, space, mythology and philosophy, as Borges' ch ...Show more
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Jorge Luis Borges was a literary spellbinder whose tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated "Library of Babel".
Poems of the Night by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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 Book of Imaginary Beings (Deluxe Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
$42.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
In a perfect pairing of talent, this volume blends 20 illustrations by Sis with Borges' 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' The Time Machine.
The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges
$2.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | 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
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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 spel ...Show more
The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
$48.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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.
The Widow Ching-pirate by Jorge Luis Borges
$7.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'On days of combat, the crew would mix gunpowder with their liquor'. Borges became famous as a writer of short stories that contained new realities: elaborately conceived, ingenious and gamesome precis of impossible worlds or imaginary books. In these five stories there is danger on the high seas, an un ...Show more
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