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565 pages ; 25 cm |
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A universal history of iniquity. 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 Kôtsuké no Suké -- Hakim, the masked dyer of Merv -- Man on pink corner -- Et cetera. |
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Fictions. The garden of forking paths. 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. 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. |
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The aleph. 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' 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. |
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The maker. 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. |
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In praise of darkness. The ethnographer -- Pedro Salvadores -- Legend -- A prayer -- His end and his beginning. |
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Brodie's report. The interloper -- Unworthy -- The story from Rosendo Juárez -- The encounter -- Juan Muraña -- The elderly lady -- The duel -- The other duel -- Guayaquil -- The gospel according to Mark -- Brodie's report. |
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The book of sand. 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. |
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Shakespeare's memory. August 25, 1983 -- Blue tigers -- The rose of Paracelsus -- Shakespeare's memory. |
| Summary |
The works of an Argentinian writer who took the detective story and turned it into metaphysics. They range from the 1935 A Universal History of Iniquity, a series of biographies of reprehensible evildoers, to the surrealistic August 25, 1983 in which Borges meets himself as an old man. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Hurley, Andrew.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986. Short stories. English. Collected fictions. New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1998 (OCoLC)607208334 |
| ISBN |
0670849707 alkaline paper |
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9780670849703 alkaline paper |
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