– Customer review on 09/06/2007

If you're interested in creative writing and imaginative fiction, it just doesn't get any better than this.
Here Borges has selected his personal favourites into one volume.

Borges has influenced writers as diverse as Eco and Ligotti with his unique imagination. He weaves the most fascinatiing tales of magical realism, restoring a sense of wonder many may have not felt since childhood. He tells of mirrors, swords, minotaurs and labyrinths; a universe that is a library containg an infinite number of books; a book whose pages change upon every reading; a minotaur who knows nothing but the maze that is his house.

Certainly this is a strong collection, but one would be better to by the Penguin centenary collected fictions.