Book awards: Borges' A Personal Library

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Above the Dark Circus by Hugh Walpole
The Aeneid by Virgil
Apocryphal New Testament by M. R. James
The Arabian Nights by Husain Haddawy
Bartleby The Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd by Herman Melville
The Book of Good Love by Juan Ruiz
Buried Alive by Arnold Bennett
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw
Candida by George Bernard Shaw
Cantar de Cantares by Leon Fray Luis De
Chesterton's The Blue Cross: Study Edition by G. K. Chesterton
The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by William Blake
Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Confabulario and Other Inventions by Juan José Arreola
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
CRTICA LITERARIA by Paul Groussac
Cuentos completos by Julio Cortázar
Dagli ebrei la salvezza by Leon Bloy
Egil's Saga by Anonymous
El Imperio Jesuitico by Leopoldo Lugones
El piloto ciego by Giovanni Papini
End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
An Experiment With Time (Studies in Consciousness) by J. W. Dunne
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard
The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James
The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
The Golem by Gustav Meyrink
The Great God Brown: including The Fountain, The Dreamy Kid and Before Breakfast by Eugene O'Neill
The Greek Myths: Complete Edition by Robert Graves
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The Histories by Herodotus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Intelligence of Flowers by Maurice Maeterlinck
The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells
La Hora de Todos y la Fortuna Con Seso by Francisco de Quevedo
Lady into fox by David Garnett
Le sang du pauvre by Léon Bloy
Les Derniers Jours d'Emmanuel Kant by Thomas de Quincey
The Lesson of the Master by Henry James
Los ídolos by Manuel Mujica Lainez
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
A Man in the Zoo by David Garnett
The Mandarin by Eça de Queiroz
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson
Obra Poética by Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
On the Characteristics of Animals. Books 1-5 by Claudius Aelianus
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
The Possessed by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Private Life; Lord Beaupre; the Visits by Henry James
The problem of time: An historical and critical study by J. Alexander Gunn
Professional secrets; an autobiography of Jean Cocteau, drawn from his lifetime writings by Jean Cocteau
Prólogo a la obra de Silverio Lanza by Ramón Gómez de la Serna
The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
Romans et contes by Voltaire
Saggio su l'Orlando furioso by Attilio Momigliano
The Sailor's Return by David Garnett
Selected Stories (Penguin Modern Classics) by Rudyard Kipling
Strange Interlude by Eugene O'Neill
Tales Of Ise (Classics of Japanese Literature) by Helen Craig McCullough
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Gustave Flaubert
The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen
The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between) by Francesca Fremantle
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo
Un barbare en Asie by Henri Michaux
The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
Vathek by William Beckford
Vida de Marco Bruto by Francisco de Quevedo
Vies Imaginaires by Marcel Schwob

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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 unable to write the prologues for the last three of the seventy-five volumes. The prologues were collected and reprinted in 1988.

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