Aleph and Other Stories

by Jorge Luis Borges

Dazzling and unmistakable in style, resonant in meaning, Jorge Luis Borges' 'The Aleph and Other Stories' contains the best of Borges' fiction. Included also is a lengthy autobiographical essay written especially for this volume. The twenty stories in this book cover the whole span and all the various facets of Borges' forty-year career as a short story writer.

More by Jorge Luis Borges

FiccionesJorge Luis Borges
El AlephJorge Luis Borges
The book of imaginary beingsJorge Luis Borges
The library of BabelJorge Luis Borges
The Book of FantasyJorge Luis Borges
A universal history of iniquityJorge Luis Borges
The book of sandJorge Luis Borges
Other InquisitionsJorge Luis Borges
El hacedorJorge Luis Borges
Obra Poetica, 1923-1967Jorge Luis Borges
The aleph (including the prose fictions from The Maker)Jorge Luis Borges
Doctor Brodie's reportJorge Luis Borges

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Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
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