Labyrinths

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Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Stories [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) The Garden of Forking Paths The Lottery in Babylon Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote The Circular Ruins The Library of Babel Funes the Memorious The Shape of the Sword Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Death and the Compass The Secret Miracle Three Versions of Judas The Sect of the Phoenix The Immortal The Theologians Story of the Warrior and the Captive Emma Zunz The House of Asterion Deutsches Requiem Averroes' Search The Zahir The Waiting The God's Script Stories 1-13 are from Ficciones; 14-23 are from The Aleph. Essays The Argentine Writer and Tradition The Wall and the Books The Fearful Sphere of Pascal Partial Magic in the Quixote Valéry as Symbol Kafka and His Precursors Avatars of the Tortoise The Mirror of Enigmas A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw A New Refutation of Time All essays are from Otras inquisiciones, except The Argentine Writer and Tradition and Avatars of the Tortoise which are from Discusión Parables Inferno, I, 32 Paradiso, XXXI, 108 Ragnarök Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote The Witness A Problem Borges and I Everything and Nothing All parables are from The Maker

subjects: Anachronisms,  speculative fiction,  subjective idealism,  duodecimals,  aneurysms,  adjectives,  hermeticism,  philanthropy,  cabala,  persecution,  World War I,  Abteilung IIIb,  Chinese people,  Irish Catholics,  British Empire,  Sinologists,  revolvers,  hanging,  murder,  capital punishment,  Imperial German Air Service,  lotteries,  hexagons,  permutations,  languages,  Latin,  telegrams,  Gaelic,  Tetragrammaton,  Hebrew calendar,  equilateral triangle,  rhombuses,  Kabbalah,  playwrights,  World War II,  Judaism,  Anschluss,  Illiad,  Byzantine Army,  embezzlement,  defamation,  queens,  German nobility,  Lutheranism,  Christianity,  Nazi Party,  synagogues,  Wermacht,  German occupation of Czechoslovakia,  concentration camps,  Jews,  cowards,  compassion,  Second Battle of El Alamein,  crimes against humanity,  execution by firing squad,  early Islamic philosophy,  Poetics,  theatre,  fixation,  reality,  pesos,  train of thought,  history,  legends,  free will,  neighbourhoods,  tigers,  astrolabes,  wells,  marble,  mosques,  Aztecs,  jaguars,  Argentine literature,  Fiction,  Literary Collections,  Literature,  Literature Classics,  Literature Texts,  Manners and customs,  Short Stories (single author),  Social life and customs,  Spanish literature,  Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author),  Translations into English,  Argentine Short stories,  Argentina, fiction,  Fiction, short stories (single author),  English literature,  Translations from Spanish,  Borges, jorge luis , 1899-1986,  Pq7797.b635 a2 2007,  868/.6209,  Public Finance,  Money,  Economic conditions,  Social lfe and customs

People: Jorge Luis Borges,  Adolfo Bioy Casares,  Herbert Ashe,  Ezra Buckley,  Jesus Christ,  Faucigny Lucinge,  Yu Tsun,  Richard Madden,  Viktor Runeberg,  Walter Nicolai,  Ts'ui Pên,  Pierre Menard,  Don Quixote,  Purifiers,  Ireneo Funes,  John Vincent Moon,  Judas,  Fergus Kilpatrick,  William Shakespeare (1564-1616),  Ryan,  Nolan,  Lönnrot,  God,  Red Scharlach,  Jaromir Hladík,  Nazis,  Nils Runeberg,  Solomon,  Plato,  Alexander Pope,  Princess of Lucinge,  Joseph Cartaphilus,  Marcus Flaminius Rufus,  Diocletian,  Argos,  Homer,  Sinbad the Sailor,  Ulysses,  Nahum Cordovero,  Pliny the Elder,  Thomas De Quincey,  René Descartes,  Aurelian,  John of Pannonia,  Bernard Shaw (1856-1950),  Droctulft,  Paul the Deacon,  Lombards,  Emma Zunz,  Aaron Lowenthal,  Asterion,  Ariadne,  Minotaur,  Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860),  Napoleon Bonaparte,  Averroës,  Tzinacán,  Pedro de Alvarado

Places: Argentina,  Tlön,  Uqbar,  Orbis Tertius,  Buenos Aires,  Lucerne,  London,  United States,  United Kingdom,  Germany,  Ashgrove,  Stephen Albert,  Doctor Albert's house,  Albert,  Berlin,  Babylon,  Fray Bentos,  Uruguay,  Egypt,  Prague,  Clementinum library,  India,  Lund,  Thebes,  City of the Immortals,  Africa,  Stamford Bridge,  Bombay,  Eritrea,  Smyrna,  Ravenna,  House of Asterion,  Marienburg,  West Prussia,  Tilsit,  Czechoslovakia,  Nazi Germany

Times: 1935-1947,  17th century,  1947,  1940,  1941,  1942,  1944,  1884,  1887,  December,  January,  February,  June 1929,  October 1929,  1872,  1908,  February 7 1941,  March 1 1939