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Labyrinths (Paperback, New Ed)
Jorge Luis Borges; Edited by Donald Yates, James Irby; Preface by Andre Maurois
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was a literary spellbinder whose gripping tales of magic, mystery and murder are shot through with deep philosophical paradoxes. This collection brings together many of his stories, including the celebrated 'Library of Babel', 'Garden of Forking Paths', 'Funes the Memorious' and 'Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote'. In later life, dogged by increasing blindness, Borges used essays and brief tantalizing parables to explore the enigmas of time, identity and imagination. Playful and disturbing, scholarly and seductive, his is a haunting and utterly distinctive voice.
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Labyrinths (Paperback)
Jorge Luis Borges; Edited by Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby; Introduction by William Gibson; Contributions by Andre Maurois
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The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge
Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the
structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well
over half a century. Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and
allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian. Umberto Eco's
international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level,
an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which
American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New
Directions publication of Labyrinths. This new edition of
Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing
edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by
themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition
(as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical
essay, a poignant tribute by Andre Maurois, and a chronology of the
author's life. Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a
new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the
twenty-first century."
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The Letters of Lord Byron (Paperback)
George Gordon Byron; Edited by R.G. Howarth; Introduction by Andre Maurois
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1935 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.
This early work by Andre Maurois was originally published in 1921
and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series.
'General Bramble' is a cute comic work and a sequel to 'The Silence
of Colonel Bramble'. It is translated from the original French by
Jules Castier and Ronald Boswell. This book is part of the World
War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new
and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The
series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of
the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this
tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication
also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help
the reader place the work in its historical context."
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
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1920. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake; Verses
translated by Wilfrid Jackson. Whitlock writes in the Introduction
about The Silence of Colonel Bramble: Every English officer one met
was chuckling over it, and pointing out Old So-and-so in its pages
as the original of this or that type. It was a picture not only of
the Lennox Highlanders, but of every regimental and brigade mess in
the army.
1929. From the dust jacket. Andre Maurois who wrote so
sympathetically of the lives of Disraeli and Shelley (Ariel) has
created here a novel of incomparable charm and originality.
Atmosphere of Love is a study of a man and the two women he loved.
In the opening chapters, Philippe Marcenat narrates his version of
his affair with the woman he loved, madly, jealously; in the latter
part of the novel the mirror is held up at a different angle and
Marcenat's second wife presents her estimate of her husband. By
this original device, we have a subtle and a living portrait of the
hero. At the same time, it is an analysis, profound and clarifying,
of the nature and the course of love and the devastating effect of
human jealousy. Virginia Woolf, the author of Orlando says of this
novel: It would be difficult to find a fellow to it in English. One
cannot bring to mind at the moment any living English writer so
intelligent, so dextrous, so accomplished as M. Maurois. See other
titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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