The Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New his face obscured by a

his face obscured by a jewelled mask

impossible puzzles and riddles

But there are many strings to Bruce's bow

Mark Bostridge's Vera Brittain and the First World War

when she won a short-story writing competition in the Observer

The Aleph (Penguin Modern Classics) [2000] paperback Condition:New his face obscured by aBorges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, Borges returns again and again to his themes: dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, infinite libraries, the manipulations of chance, gaucho knife fighters, transparent tigers and the elusive nature of identity itself.