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The library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated by Andrew Hurley.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Borges Library
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Biblioteca de Babel. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Libraries--Fiction.
- Libraries.
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Spanish fiction--Translations into English.
- Spanish fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- v, 156 pages ; 17 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Penguin Classics, 2023.
- Summary:
- Jorge Luis Borges remains one of the most influential short story writers of the twentieth century, whose spellbinding tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his greatest stories, including 'The Garden of Forking Paths', 'The Book of Sand' and 'Shakespeare's Memory'.
- Contents:
- The Garden of the Forking Paths
- Funes, His Memory
- The Library of Babel
- Death and the Compass
- Tiön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- The Book of Sand
- The Lottery in Babylon
- Pierre Menard, author of the Quixote
- The Circular Ruins
- Shakespeare's Memory.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Shober Family Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780241630860
- 024163086X
- OCLC:
- 1409112363
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