An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

selected stories & other writings

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An edition of Labyrinths (1962)

Labyrinths

selected stories & other writings

Augmented ed., eleventh printing
  • 4.1 (43 ratings) ·
  • 217 Want to read
  • 8 Currently reading
  • 43 Have read

Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett.

It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories.

Stories
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
The Garden of Forking Paths
The Lottery in Babylon
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
The Circular Ruins
The Library of Babel
Funes the Memorious
The Shape of the Sword
Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
Death and the Compass
The Secret Miracle
Three Versions of Judas
The Sect of the Phoenix
The Immortal
The Theologians
Story of the Warrior and the Captive
Emma Zunz
The House of Asterion
Deutsches Requiem
Averroes' Search
The Zahir
The Waiting
The God's Script
Stories 1-13 are from Ficciones; 14-23 are from The Aleph.

Essays
The Argentine Writer and Tradition
The Wall and the Books
The Fearful Sphere of Pascal
Partial Magic in the Quixote
Valéry as Symbol
Kafka and His Precursors
Avatars of the Tortoise
The Mirror of Enigmas
A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw
A New Refutation of Time
All essays are from Otras inquisiciones, except The Argentine Writer and Tradition and Avatars of the Tortoise which are from Discusión

Parables
Inferno, I, 32
Paradiso, XXXI, 108
Ragnarök
Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
The Witness
A Problem
Borges and I
Everything and Nothing
All parables are from The Maker

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English
Pages
256

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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
2007, New Directions
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
2007, New Directions
Paperback in English - Reissued
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Labyrinths
1987, Penguin Books
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Labyrinths: selected stories and other writings
1970, Penguin Books
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
1970?, New Directions
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Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
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Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
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Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions Pub. Corp
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Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings
1964, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, 7th printing
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: selected stories & other writings
1964, New Directions
Paperback in English - Augmented edition, 7th printing
Cover of: Labyrinths
Labyrinths: Short Stories & Other Writings
1964, New Directions
Library Binding in English - Augmented edition

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Edition Notes

"A New Directions book."

The last entry of "Chronology" (p. 256): 1986.

Published in
New York
Series
A New Directions paperbook -- NDP186
Copyright Date
1964

Classifications

Library of Congress
PQ7797.B635 L3 1964, PQ7797.B635 A2 1964

The Physical Object

Format
Library Binding
Pagination
xxiii, 256 p. ;
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22367985M
Internet Archive
trent_01163007525379
ISBN 10
0811200124
ISBN 13
9780811200127
LCCN
64025440
OCLC/WorldCat
260942
Library Thing
607
Goodreads
17717

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