"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. The collection is the most definitive and comprehensive available in English."--Jacket.

Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives.

This book includes 118 earlier pieces never before translated, and moves through his more fantastic work to a later realism