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      The Aleph and Other Stories

      by Jorge Luis Borges
      Published
      Jan 1970
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      286
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      Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's most fully realized human characters. With uncanny insight he takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father's "killer," and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This volume also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

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      Feb 1979 Plume ISBN13 9780525482758 ISBN10 052548275X
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      Feb 1979 Plume ISBN13 9780525475392 ISBN10 0525475397
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      Feb 1979 Plume ISBN13 9780525484448 ISBN10 0525484442
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      Sep 2000 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141183831 ISBN10 0141183837
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      Aug 2004 Penguin ISBN13 9780142437889 ISBN10 0142437883
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      First Edition Jan 1970 Dutton ISBN13 9780525051541 ISBN10 0525051546
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