Borges' A Personal Library

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'A Personal Library' was Borges' last project, published in 1985 and 1986 by Emece in Spain and Argentina, and in Italian translation by Franco Mario Ricci. Borges was show more unable to write the prologues for the last three of the seventy-five volumes. The prologues were collected and reprinted in 1988. show less
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On the Characteristics of Animals. Books 1-5 (1958) by Claudius Aelianus
Tales of Ise (1968) by Ariwara-no-Narihira
Confabulario and Other Inventions (1952) by Juan José Arreola
Vathek (1786) by William Beckford
Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days (1908) by Arnold Bennett
The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) (1827) by William Blake
Blood of the Poor (1920) by Léon Bloy
Salvation Through the Jews (1892) by Léon Bloy
The Tartar Steppe (1940) by Dino Buzzati
Chesterton's The Blue Cross: Study Edition (2006) by G.K. Chesterton
Professional Secrets: An Autobiography of Jean Cocteau (1970) by Jean Cocteau
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins
The End of the Tether (1902) by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
Moll Flanders (1722) by Daniel Defoe
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant (1983) by Thomas De Quincey
Demons (1871) by Fyodor Dostoevsky
An Experiment with Time (1927) by J. W. Dunne
O Mandarim (1880) by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1874) by Gustave Flaubert
Lady into Fox (1922) by David Garnett
A Man in the Zoo (1924) by David Garnett
The Sailor's Return (1925) by David Garnett
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1788) by Edward Gibbon
The Counterfeiters (1925) by André Gide
The Epic of Gilgamesh (1700 BCE) by Gilgamesh Poet
Prólogo a la obra de Silverio Lanza (1985) by Ramón Gómez de la Serna
The Greek Myths: Complete Edition (1955) by Robert Graves
Crítica literaria (1987) by Paul Groussac
The problem of time: An historical and critical study by J. Alexander Gunn
The Histories (420 BCE) by Herodotus
The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Hermann Hesse
Hedda Gabler (1890) by Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt (1966) by Henrik Ibsen
The Figure in the Carpet (1992) by Henry James
The Lesson of the Master (1996) by Henry James
The private life, Lord Beaupre , The visits by Henry James
The Apocryphal New Testament: Being the Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Apocalypses with Other Narratives and Fragments Newly Translated by Montague Rhodes James (1924) by M. R. James
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James
Cuentos by Julio Cortazar
Mathematics and the Imagination (1940) by Edward Kasner
Fear and Trembling (1843) by Søren Kierkegaard
Selected Stories (1929) by Rudyard Kipling
El cantar de los cantares (1972) by Fray Luis de León
El imperio jesuítico (Spanish Edition) (1904) by Leopoldo Lugones
The Three Impostors (1895) by Arthur Machen
The Intelligence of The Flowers (1907) by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Arabian Nights (1300) by Muhsin Mahdi
Obra poética (1988) by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Bartleby / Benito Cereno / Billy Budd (1853) by Herman Melville
The Golem (1914) by Gustav Meyrink
A Barbarian in Asia (1945) by Henri Michaux
Ensayo sobre "Orlando Furioso" (1928) by Attilio Momigliano
Los ídolos (1953) by Manuel Mujica Lainez
The Great God Brown: including The Fountain, The Dreamy Kid and Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) by Eugene O'Neill
Strange Interlude (1928) by Eugene O'Neill
El piloto ciego (2009) by Giovanni Papini
The Red Redmaynes (1922) by Eden Phillpotts
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (1824) by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe: Poetry and Tales (1984) by Edgar Allan Poe
The Travels of Marco Polo (1298) by Marco Polo
La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna Con Seso (1975) by Francisco de Quevedo
Vida de Marco Bruto (2000) by Francisco de Quevedo
The Book of Good Love (1970) by Arcipreste de Hita Juan Ruiz
Pedro Páramo (1955) by Juan Rulfo
Imaginary Lives (1896) by Marcel Schwob
Caesar and Cleopatra (1898) by George Bernard Shaw
Candida (1897) by George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara (1905) by George Bernard Shaw
Markheim (1885) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Egil's Saga (1240) by Snorri Sturluson
Gulliver's Travels (1727) by Jonathan Swift
The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) by Thorstein Veblen
The Aeneid (29 BCE) by Virgil
Above the Dark Circus (1931) by Hugh Walpole
The Invisible Man (1897) by H. G. Wells
The Time Machine (1895) by H. G. Wells

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