Reasoned Thematic Dictionary of the Prose of Jorge Luis Borges
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Plume, April 1979. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Minimal cover soiling and foxing. More
Grove Press, June 1969. Trade Paperback. The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century. Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful..... More
New Directions, May 2007. Trade Paperback. The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's..... More
E.P. Dutton, 1970. Trade Paperback. More
Malton Press, January 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Malton Press, January 1982. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Wakefield Press, June 2015. Trade Paperback. Thirty tales from one of the best known but least translated of the French Decadent writersThirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Léon Bloy. Disagreeable..... More
Henry Holt & Company, September 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by the true heir to Kafka, Borges, and Angela Carter, THE EMBROIDERED SHOES is a magical collection of hallucinatory tales set in a world where anything can happen, and everything does. Constructed like a set of graduated Chinese boxes, these..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1987. Trade Paperback. The Author on His Work contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime as well as relevant selections from his American Notebooks and selected letters, both of which are reprinted from The Centenary..... More
Riverhead Books, March 2024. Hardcover. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY ELLE, THE SEATTLE TIMES, LITERARY HUB, THE MILLIONS AND MORE! "A metatextual masterpiece." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW "Oyeyemi writes here as an heir to Calvino or Borges...A dizzying, dazzling romp." --Kirkus Reviews The prize-winning, bestselling author..... More
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a dazzling work of historical fiction and a treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. From a Turkish writer who has been compared with..... More
Vintage, March 1998. Trade Paperback. From the Nobel Prize winner and the acclaimed author of My Name is Red comes a dazzling work of historical fiction and a treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. From a Turkish writer who has been compared with..... More
Grove Press, November 2023. Paper Back. SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM "One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole." -Jorge Luis Borges The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American literature, now published in a new, authoritative translation, and featuring a foreword by Gabriel..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1981. Hardcover. Masterfully crafted, "Treasure Island" is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas -- an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 1981. Hardcover. Masterfully crafted, "Treasure Island" is a stunning yarn of piracy on the fiery tropic seas -- an unforgettable tale of treachery that embroils a host of legendary swashbucklers, from honest young Jim Hawkins to sinister, two-timing Israel Hands, to evil incarnate, blind Pew. But..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, November 2001. Paper Back. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a brilliant and witty collection of writings on the art and nature of poetry -- a master class both entertaining and provocative. The pieces have a broad range and many levels. In one, we sit with the teenage..... More