Collected fictions / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Andrew Hurley.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Publication details: New York : Viking, 1998.Description: ix, 565 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0670849707 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Short stories. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 863 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ7797.B635 A24 1998
Partial 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.
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.
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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.

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.

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