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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986.

The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker) / Jorge Luis Borges ; translated with an introduction by Andrew Hurley.

New York, N.Y., USA : Penguin Books, 2004.

xiii, 210 p. ; 20 cm.

Twenty fictional pieces survey the depth and range of the distinguished Argentine writer's forty-year career as he journeys inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Maya priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a man awaiting his assassin, and a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer."

Penguin classics.

Penguin classics.

Argentina -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Hurley, Andrew.

Short stories. English. Selections.

Aleph and other stories.

Aleph: 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 -- Afterword -- The maker -- Dreamtigers -- A dialog about a dialog -- Toenails -- Covered mirrors -- Argumentum Ornithologicum -- The captive -- The mountebank -- Delia Elena San Marco -- The dialog between dead men -- The plot -- A problem -- The yellow rose -- The witness -- Martin Fierro -- Mutations -- Parable of Cervantes and the Quixot -- Paradiso, XXXI, 108 -- Parable of the palace -- Everything and nothing -- Ragnarok -- Inferno, I -- Borges and I -- Museum: On exactitude and science -- In memoriam J.F.K.

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