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On Writing by Jorge Luis Borges
$26.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | 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
$37.99 AUD
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
Seven Nights by BORGES JORGE LUIS
$30.00 AUD
Category: Classics
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
$19.99 AUD
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 Book of Imaginary Beings (Deluxe Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
$38.00 AUD
Category: Classics | 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
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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 Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares; Ruth L. C. Simms (Translator); Jorge Luis Borges (Prologue by); Suzanne Jill Levine (Introduction by)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy's novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is ...Show more
The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
$22.99 AUD
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 Lottery in Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges; Norman Thomas di Giovanni (Translator)
$9.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: ERIS Gems Ser.
"The drunkard who comes out with an absurd order, the dreamer who suddenly wakes and with his bare hands strangles the woman sleeping beside him - are they perhaps not carrying out one of the Company's secret decisions? These silent workings, so like those of God, give rise to all manner of speculation. ...Show more
The Mirror of Ink by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins 70's S.
Jorge Luis Borges wrote playful and deeply imaginative short stories that explored philosophy, paradox and the nature of existence. Penguin Modern Classics publish all of his most famous works, including Labyrinths, The Aleph and Fictions.
The Perpetual Race of Achilles and the Tortoise by Jorge Luis Borges
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
In this collection of wise, witty and fascinating essays, Borges discusses the existence (or non-existence) of Hell, the flaws in English literary detectives, the philosophy of contradictions, and the many translators of "1001 Nights". Varied and enthralling, these pieces examine the very nature of our ...Show more
The Sonnets by Jorge Luis Borges
$32.99 AUD
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