Borges - A Reader : The Selected Works of Jorge Luis Borges by Jorge Luis Borges - 1981

Penguin Publishing Group, 1981. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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E. P. Dutton,. 1981. Softcover. 0525476547 . Light cover edgewear, edge curl. Pgs tight, clean, unmarked. ; .

Dutton, 1981. Trade paperback in good condition.. Soft cover. Good.

New York: Plume / Dutton, 1981. 1st Edition. . Trade Paperback. About Fine/Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition stated, First printing. Soft cover 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall in printed wraps, About Fine w/ one bent corner from improper storage; square w/ flat spine and firm binding, interior clean and unmarked. 368pp inc. Chronology, Borges in English, Notes, List of Translators (two pages!), edited by Emir Rodriguez Monegal & Alastair Reid. 368 p.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. 369 pages. edited by Emir Rodriguez Monegal & Alastair Reid; 6 1/8 x 9 1/8

Plume / Dutton, 1981-09-29. Paperback. Good.

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Born in Buenos Aires, Jorge Borges (1899-1986) was educated in Europe and returned to Buenos Aires in 1921, where he co-founded several avant-garde literary periodicals. In 1955, after the fall of Juan Peron, whom he vigorously opposed, he was appointed director of the Argentine National Library. With Samuel Beckett he was awarded the 1961 $10,000 International Publishers Prize, which helped to establish him as one of the most prominent writers in the world. Borges regularly taught and lectured throughout the United States and Europe. His ideas have been a profound influence on writers throughout the Western world and on literary and critical theory. A prolific writer of essays, short stories, and plays, Borges regarded people's endeavors to understand an incomprehensible world as fiction; hence, his fiction is metaphysical and based on what he called 'an esthetics of the intellect'. Some critics have called him 'a mystic'. This collection was published before Borges died, so it contains what he… Read More