The Library of Babel
  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630860
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99

The Library of Babel

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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 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'.
  • Published: 5 September 2023
  • ISBN: 9780241630860
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires in 1899 and was educated in Europe. One of the most widely acclaimed writers of our time, he published many collections of poems, essays and short stories before his death in Geneva in 1986. He was director of the Argentine National Library from 1955 until 1973. Mario Vargas Llosa, in a tribute to Borges, has written: 'His is a world of clear, pure, and at the same time unusual ideas expressed in words of great directness and restraint. [He] was a superb storyteller. One reads most of Borges' tales with the hypnotic interest usually reserved for reading detective fiction...'

Also by Jorge Luis Borges

Labyrinths: Popular Penguins
The Garden of Forking Paths
Fictions
Collected Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges: The Last Interview
The Perpetual Race Of Achilles And The Tortoise
On Writing
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