Books selected by Borges for his Personal Library (Part 1)

Explore Part 1 of Jorge Luis Borges' personal library—curated books handpicked by the literary genius himself. Discover the titles that inspired Borges' iconic works.

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Selected Non-Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

This unique volume presents a Borges almost entirely unknown to American readers: his extraordinary non-fiction prose. Borges' unlimited curiosity and almost superhuman erudition become, in …
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Collected Fictions

by Jorge Luis Borges

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 …
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Blow-Up

by Julio Cortázar

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams . . . A man reading a mystery finds out …
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Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.
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The Tartar Steppe

 

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Strange Forces

 

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The Counterfeiters

by Andre Gide

A young artist pursues a search for knowledge through the treatment of homosexuality and the collapse of morality in middle class France.
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The Greek Myths

by Robert Graves

Endymion, Pelops, Daedalus, Pygmalion -- we recognize the names, but what are the stories behind these and other familiar gods from the Greek pantheon -- …
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Great Short Works of Herman Melville

by Herman Melville

Billy Budd, Sailor and Bartleby, the Scrivener are two of the most revered shorter works of fiction in history. Here, they are collected along with …
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The Three Impostors and Other Stories

by Arthur Machen

Some of the finest horror stories ever written. Arthur Machen had a profound impact upon H.P. Lovecraft and the group of stories that would later …
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