Books like Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

A Christmas Carol is Charles Dickens’ allegorical novella about Ebenezer Scrooge, whose miserly ways are transformed through visits from Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Jonathan Swift’s comic tour of absurd societies—Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the Houyhnhnms—satirises 18th‑century politics, human nature, and the perils of travel.

Edith Grossman's acclaimed English translation of Miguel de Cervantes’ classic "Don Quixote" brings the famed knight-errant and his loyal squire Sancho Panza to life in 16th‑century Spain.

Labyrinths is Jorge Luis Borges’ celebrated volume of short stories and essays, containing classics such as “TLON, UQBAR, ORBIS TERTIUS,” “The Library of Babel,” and philosophical parables that explore language, reality, and fiction.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

All of Jorge Luis Borges's short fiction, translated into English and gathered for the first time in one volume.

A lyrical collection of vignettes that portrait the gentle world of a donkey named Platero and the childhood memories of Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez.

"Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is a short story by the 20th-century Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. The story was first published in the Argentinian journal Sur, May 1940. The "postscript" dated 1947 is intended to be anachronistic, set seven years in the future. The first English-language translation of the story was published in 1961. Told in a first-person narrative, the story focuses on the author's discovery of the mysterious and possibly fictional country of Uqbar and its legend of Tlön, a mythical world whose inhabitants believe a form of subjective idealism, denying the reality of objects and nouns. Relatively long for Borges (approximately 5,600 words), the story is a work of speculative fiction. The story alludes to many leading intellectual figures both in Argentina and in the world at large, and takes up a number of themes more typical of a novel of ideas. Most of the ideas engaged are in the areas of metaphysics, language, epistemology, and literary criticism. ---------- Contained in: [70 años de narrativa argentina](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6710424) [Antología de la literatura fantástica](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16538128W) [Borges Esencial](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444704W) [Ficciones](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL110971W) [His Obras completas: Historia universal de la infamia](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL13575332W) [El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444760W) [Labyrinths](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL110959W) [Obras Completas 1: 1923-1949](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444855W) [Widow-Ching Pirate](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17484879W) [Zwei Labyrinthe Lesebuch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19539693W)

Jorge Luis Borges invites readers into a collection of fantastical tales featuring mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, all woven from his unique literary imagination.

xxiv, 401 p

A curated quintet of Jorge Luis Borges’ imaginative short stories, blending speculative philosophy, hermetic mystique, and subtle absurdity across titles like “Tlön, Ugbar, Orbis Tertius” and “Pierre Menard.”