• Publication: FiccionesPublication Record # 260785
• Author: Jorge Luis Borges
• Date: 1962-00-00
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Price:
  21/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
• Pages: 174
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: COLLECTION
• Notes: Edited and translated from the original Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan and others.
• External IDs:
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 642715

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Ficciones) • essay by Anthony Kerrigan
• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of
  Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius^?Tloen, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
  1940)
• The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim • short fiction by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El acercamiento a Almotásim 1936)
• Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote • short fiction by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Pierre Menard, autor del Quijote 1939)
• The Circular Ruins • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Las ruinas circulares 1940)
• The Babylon Lottery • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La lotería en Babilonia 1941)
• An Examination of the Work of Herbert Quain • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain 1941)
• The Library of Babel • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La biblioteca de Babel 1941)
• The Garden of Forking Paths • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan 1941)
• Funes the Memorious • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Funes el memorioso 1942)
• The Form of the Sword • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La forma de la espada 1942)
• Theme of the Traitor and Hero • short fiction by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Tema del traidor y del héroe 1944)
• Death and the Compass • (1954) • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La muerte y la brújula 1942)
• The Secret Miracle • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El milagro secreto 1943)
• Three Versions of Judas • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of Tres versiones de Judas 1944)
• The End • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El fin 1953)
• The Sect of the Phoenix • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of La secta del Fénix 1952)
• The South • short story by Jorge Luis Borges (trans. of El Sur 1953)