Chronicles of Bustos Domecq
Plume, April 1979. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Minimal cover soiling and foxing. 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
Penguin Classics, June 2010. Trade Paperback. A master class in the art of writing by one of its most distinguished and innovative practitioners Delve into the labyrinth of Jorge Luis Borges's thoughts on the theory and practice of literature, and learn from one of the most influential writers of the..... More
Ediciones Del Norte, June 1990. Hardcover. More
Viking / Penguin, 1988. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean & sound. [384 pages]. More
Purdue University Press, June 1991. Hardcover. This authoritative study explores the scientific and mathematical cultural milieu that patterns much of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's narrative design. Although criticism of Borges's fiction and essays has long emphasized philosophical traditions, Merrell expands the context of this interrogation of traditions by..... 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
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
Dial Press, January 2013. Trade Paperback. "A large, lavishly inventive novel . . . an American descendant of The Arabian Nights . . . erudite and artful entertainment."--The New York Times Book Review At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old Enzo is whisked away from his young adoptive aunt, Mala..... More
Bantam, May 1985. Trade Paperback. Brilliant, shattering, mind-jolting, "The Mind's I" is a searching, probing nook--a cosmic journey of the mind--that goes deeply into the problem of self and self-consciousness as anything written in our time. From verbalizing chimpanzees to scientific speculations involving machines with souls, from the mesmerizing, maze-like..... More
University of Minnesota Press, December 2005. Trade Paperback. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) reveals these hidden interiors of cultural life, the "avisual" as it has emerged in the writings of Jorge Luis Borges and Jacques..... 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
Grove Press, November 2023. Paper Back. An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the..... 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 a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West. In the..... 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
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
Picador, November 2002. Trade Paperback. Thirty-five years after her first collection, the now classic Against Interpretation, America's most important essayist has chosen more than forty longer and shorter pieces from the last twenty years. Divided into three sections, the first "Reading" includes ardent pieces on writers from her own private..... 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