This collection gathers many of Borges's finest stories and essays: infinite libraries, gardens of forking paths, men who remember everything, imaginary encyclopedias that create worlds. The translations brought Borges to English readers and established him as one of the essential writers of the twentieth century. The prose is clear, cool, and vertiginous. Each story is brief and contains infinities. Borges was blind by the time of this collection's publication, dictating to assistants, imagining in darkness. The labyrinth is his emblem: complex, constructed, offering no exit. We enter. We wander. We do not leave.