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Table of Contents
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The Aleph & Other Stories
Preface
The Aleph
Streetcorner Man
The Approach to al-Mu’tasim
The Circular Ruins
Death and the Compass
The Life of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
The Two Kings and their Two Labyrinths
The Dead Man
The Other Death
Ibn Hakkan al-Bokhari, Dead in His Labyrinth
The Man on the Threshold
The Challenge
The Captive
Borges and Myself
The Maker
The Immortals
The Meeting
Pedro Salvadores
Rosendo’s Tale
An Autobiographical Essay
Commentaries
A Universal History of Infamy
Preface to the 1954 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
A Universal History of Infamy
The Dread Redeemer Lazarus Morell
Tom Castro, the Implausible Impostor
The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate
Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities
The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan
The Insulting Master of Etiquette Kôtsuké no Suké
The Masked Dyer, Hakim of Merv
Etcetera
A Theologian in Death
The Chamber of Statues
Tale of the Two Dreamers
The Wizard Postponed
The Mirror of Ink
A Double for Mohammed
The Generous Enemy
Of Exactitude in Science
The Book of Sand
Author's Note
The Other
Ulrike
The Congress
There Are More Things
The Sect of the Thirty
The Night of the Gifts
The Mirror and the Mask
Undr
Utopia of a Tired Man
The Bribe
Avelino Arredondo
The Disk
The Book of Sand
Afterword
In Praise of Darkness
The Anthropologist
Legend
A Prayer
His End and His Beginning
Doctor Brodie's Report
Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
The Gospel According to Mark
The Unworthy Friend
The Duel
The End of the Duel
The Intruder
Juan Muraña
The Elder Lady
Guayaquil
Doctor Brodie’s Report
Afterword
The Garden of Branching Paths
Prologue
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote
The Lottery in Babylon
A Glimpse Into the Work of Herbert Quain
The Library of Babel
The Garden of Branching Paths
Other Fictions
(translations by Anthony Kerrigan)
Three Versions of Judas
Funes, The Memorious
The Form of the Sword
Theme of the Traitor and Hero
The Secret Miracle
The End
The Sect of the Phoenix
The South
The Book of Imaginary Beings
Preface
Preface to the 1967 edition
Preface to the 1957 edition
A Bao A Qu
Abtu and Anet
The Amphisbaena
An Animal Imagined by Kafka
An Animal Imagined by C. S. Lewis
The Animal Imagined by Poe
Animals in the Form of Spheres
Antelopes with Six Legs
The Ass with Three Legs
Bahamut
Baldanders
The Banshee
The Barometz
The Basilisk
Behemoth
The Brownies
Burak
The Carbuncle
The Catoblepas
The Celestial Stag
The Centaur
Cerberus
The Cheshire Cat and the Kilkenny Cats
The Chimera
The Chinese Dragon
The Chinese Fox
The Chinese Phoenix
Chronos or Hercules
A Creature Imagined by C. S. Lewis
The Crocotta and the Leucrocotta
A Crossbreed
The Double
The Eastern Dragon
The Eater of the Dead
The Eight-Forked Serpent
The Elephant That Foretold the Birth of the Buddha
The Eloi and the Morlocks
The Elves
An Experimental Account of What Was Known, Seen, and Met by Mrs. Jane Lead in London in 1694
The Fairies
Fastitocalon
Fauna of Chile
Fauna of China
Fauna of Mirrors
Fauna of the United States
Garuda
The Gnomes
The Golem
The Griffon
Haniel, Kafziel, Azriel, and Aniel
Haokah, the Thunder God
Harpies
The Heavenly Cock
The Hippogriff
Hochigan
Humbaba
The Hundred-Heads
The Hydra of Lerna
Ichthyocentaurs
Jewish Demons
The Jinn
The Kami
A King of Fire and His Steed
The Kraken
Kujata
The Lamed Wufniks
The Lamias
Laudatores Temporis Acti
The Lemures
The Leveller
Lilith
The Lunar Hare
The Mandrake
The Manticore
The Mermecolion
The Minotaur
The Monkey of the Inkpot
The Monster Acheron
The Mother of Tortoises
The Nagas
The Nasnas
The Norns
The Nymphs
The Odradek
An Offspring of Leviathan
One-Eyed Beings
The Panther
The Pelican
The Peryton
The Phoenix
The Pygmies
The Rain Bird
The Remora
The Rukh
The Salamander
The Satyrs
Scylla
The Sea Horse
The Shaggy Beast of La Ferté-Bernard
The Simurgh
Sirens
The Sow Harnessed with Chains and Other Argentine Fauna
The Sphinx
The Squonk
Swedenborg's Angels
Swedenborg’s Devils
The Sylphs
Talos
The T’ao T’ieh
Thermal Beings
The Tigers of Annam
The Trolls
Two Metaphysical Beings
The Unicorn
The Unicorn of China
The Uroboros
The Valkyries
The Western Dragon
