Books selected by Borges for his Personal Library (Part 2)
Explore Part 2 of Jorge Luis Borges' personal library with this curated list of books handpicked by the literary genius himself. Discover the titles that inspired Borges' iconic works and delve into his world of profound thought and imagination.
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The Glass Bead Game
by Hermann Hesse
Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the ages. The most imaginative and prophetic of Hesse's works.
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Pedro PĂĄramo
by Juan Rulfo
Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author. In one such village of the mind, Comala, he set his classic novel Pedro PĂĄramo, a dream-like tale that intertwines a man's quest to find his lost father and reclaim his patrimony with the father's obsessive love for a woman who will not be possessed, Susana San Juan.
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Collected Stories of Rudyard Kipling
by Rudyard Kipling
As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865Ââ1936) was possessed by an enormous subjectâIndiaâand his genius for rendering its beauty and strangeness was even then so fully formed that we have to look to the likes of Shakespeare and Dickens to find writers equally precocious. What is even more astonishing, and what this selection of stories from across his entire career reveals, is the way that his talent grew and developed over time. The work he did toward the end of his long writing life is even better than that which marked its splendid beginnings. The forty stories collected here range across a surprising variety of subjects and techniques. Here are his superb war stories, âMary Postgate,â âThe Gardener,â and âThe Drums of the Fore and Aft,â as well as his famous forays into horror in âThe Mark of the Beast,â science fiction in âWith the Night Mail,â and the ghost story in âThe House Surgeon.â âThe Man Who Would Be Kingâ is an unforgettable adventure tale, ââLove-oâ-Womenââ and âWithout Benefit of Clergyâ reveal his insight into love and passion, and âBaa Baa, Black Sheepâ is a searing revisiting of Kiplingâs childhood trauma. From the nightmarish allegory of âThe Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukesâ and the mystical visions in âThe Bridge-Buildersâ to the brilliant portrait of obsession and sacrifice in his masterpiece, âThe Wish House,â these stories showcase Kiplingâs remarkable narrative gifts.
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The Arabian Nights
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Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's extensive and acclaimed explanatory notes. These tales, including Alaeddin; or, the Wonderful Lamp, Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, have entered into the popular imagination, demonstrating that Shahrazad's spell remains unbroken.
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The Complete Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Collected works include "The Suicide Club," "The Rajah's Diamond," "The Story of a Lie," and "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
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