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Fiction · 1999 · G

Collected Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

All of Borges's fiction — the complete stories, from Ficciones to The Book of Sand.

For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in a single volume “An event, and cause for celebration.”—The New York Times A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-edged paper For some fifty years, in intriguing and ingenious fictions that reimagined the very form of the short story—from his 1935 debut with A Universal History of Iniquity through his immensely influential collections Ficciones and The Aleph, the enigmatic prose poems of The Maker, up to his final work in the 1980s,

ForAll agesGenreFictionLength565 pagesRead time~15.5 hours

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Violence

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No violence

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No profanity

Sexual Content

None

No sexual content

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

Barely any

Themes of infinite possibility, identity, and the labyrinthine nature of knowledge

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The definitive collection of Borges's fiction in Andrew Hurley's translations. Clean metaphysical storytelling. Appropriate for older teens and adults.

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