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Contents

A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF INIQUITY (1935)	1
	Preface to the First Edition	3
	Preface to the 1954 Edition	4
	The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morell	6
	The Improbable Impostor Tom Castro	13
	The Widow Ching - Pirate	19
	Monk Eastman, Purveyor of Iniquities	25
	The Disinterested Killer Bill Harrigan	31
	The Uncivil Teacher of Court Etiquette Kotsuke no Suke	35
	Hakim, the Masked Dyer of Merv	40
	Man on Pink Corner	45
	Et cetera	53
	Index of Sources

FICTIONS (1944)

THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS (1941)
	Foreword
	Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius	68
	The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim	82
	Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote	88
	The Circular Ruins	96
	The Lottery in Babylon	101
	A Survey of the Works of Herbert Quain	107
	The Library of Babel	112
	The Garden of Forking Paths	119

ARTIFICES (1944)
	Foreword
	Funes, His Memory	131
	The Shape of the Sword	138
	The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero	143
	Death and the Compass	147
	The Secret Miracle	157
	Three Versions of Judas	163
	The End	168
	The Cult of the Phoenix	171
	The South	174

THE ALEPH (1949)
	The Immortal	183
	The Dead Man	196
	The Theologians	201
	Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden	208
	A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)	212
	Emma Zunz	215
	The House of Asterion	220
	The Other Death	223
	Deutsches Requiem	229
	Averroes' Search	235
	The Zahir	242
	The Writing of the God	250
	Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth	255
	The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths	263
	The Wait	265
	The Man on the Threshold	269
	The Aleph	274
	Afterword

THE MAKER (1960)
	Foreword: For Leopoldo Lugones
	The Maker	292
	Dreamtigers	294
	A Dialog About a Dialog	295
	Toenails	296
	Covered Mirrors	297
	Argumentum Ornithologicum	299
	The Captive	300
	The Mountebank	301
	Delia Elena San Marco	303
	A Dialog Between Dead Men	304
	The Plot	307
	A Problem	308
	The Yellow Rose	310
	The Witness	311
	Martin Fierro	312
	Mutations	314
	Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote	315
	Paradiso, XXXI, 108	316
	Parable of the Palace	317
	Everything and Nothing	319
	Ragnarok	321
	Inferno, I, 32	323
	Borges and I	324

MUSEUM
	On Exactitude in Science	325
	In Memoriam, J.F.K.	326
	Afterword

IN PRAISE OF DARKNESS (1969)
	Foreword
	The Ethnographer	334
	Pedro Salvadores	336
	Legend	338
	A Prayer	339
	His End and His Beginning	340

BRODIE'S REPORT (1970)
	Foreword
	The Interloper	348
	Unworthy	352
	The Story from Rosendo Juarez	358
	The Encounter	364
	Juan Murana	370
	The Elderly Lady	375
	The Duel	381
	The Other Duel	386
	Guayaquil	390
	The Gospel According to Mark	397
	Brodie's Report	402

THE BOOK OF SAND (1975)
	The Other	411
	Ulrikke	418
	The Congress	422
	There Are More Things	437
	The Sect of the Thirty	443
	The Night of the Gifts	446
	The Mirror and the Mask	451
	"Undr"	455
	A Weary Man's Utopia	460
	The Bribe	466
	Avelino Arredondo	472
	The Disk	477
	The Book of Sand	480
	Afterword

SHAKESPEARE'S MEMORY (1983)
	August 25, 1983	489
	Blue Tigers	494
	The Rose of Paracelsus	504
	Shakespeare's Memory	508

A Note on the Translation	517
Acknowledgments	523
Notes to the Fictions	525