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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges

Borges: Selected Non-Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges

Evaristo Carriego: A Book About Old-time Buenos Aires
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Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature
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This Craft of Verse (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)
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Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews: A Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
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Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas
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