Labyrinths

For other uses, see Labyrinth (disambiguation).

Labyrinths
New Directions last edition cover
Author(s)	Jorge Luis Borges
Translator	Donald A. Yates, James E. Irby
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short story, Essays
Publisher	New Directions Publishing
Published in English	1962
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	ISBN 978 0 8112 0012 7

Labyrinths (1962) is an English-language collection of short stories and essays by Jorge Luis Borges.

It includes "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges' most famous stories. Many of the stories are from the collections Ficciones (1944) and El Aleph (1949). The English edition was edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby.

Collected stories

• Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
• The Garden of Forking Paths
• The Lottery in Babylon
• Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
• The Circular Ruins
• The Library of Babel
• Funes the Memorious
• The Shape of the Sword
• Theme of the Traitor and the Hero
• Death and the Compass
• The Secret Miracle
• Three Versions of Judas
• The Sect of the Phoenix
• The Immortal
• The Theologians
• Story of the Warrior and the Captive
• Emma Zunz
• The House of Asterion
• Deutsches Requiem
• Averroes' Search
• The Zahir
• The Waiting
• The God's Script

Publication information

Originally published by New Directions Publishing,

• Original paperback: ISBN 978 0 8112 0012 7
• Re-issue: ISBN 978 0 8112 1699 9, with introduction by William Gibson

There is also a Modern Library hardcover edition, ISBN 978 0 394 60449 7.

See also

• Bibliography of Jorge Luis Borges

External links

• Borges and other 20th century writers
• Labyrinths, preview at Google Books