15 must-read short stories books like Los teólogos by Jorge Luis Borges

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Los teólogos

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.71

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Cuento "Los teólogos", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949.

If you liked the short stories plot in Los teólogos by Jorge Luis Borges , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

By: Gabriel García Márquez

3.79

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en … read more

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  • short stories
"Umut karın doyurmaz, dedi kadın. Karın doyurmaz ama insanı ayakta tutar, diye yanıtladı albay."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"-Y mientras tanto, ¿qué comemos? -No sé, pero si nos fueramos a morir de hambre ya nos hubiéramos muerto"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

"«A Wilson le falta pasar algún tiempo en la escuela de las dificultades, y aun de la adversidad y la miseria.»"

-Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

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2. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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3. La tregua

By: Mario Benedetti

4.18

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

De las varias y buenas novelas de Mario Benedetti, LA TREGUA es la que ha alcanzado mayor favor del… read more

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"Me aburrí de mí mismo, de mi propia paciencia."

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"أنا وحدي مثل بطل ولكن دون أي مبرر للاحساس بالشجاعة"

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"أشعر أحيانا بالتعاسة لمجرد أني لا أعرف ما هو الشيء الذي أحن إليه."

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

"¿Por qué las palmas de mi mano tienen una memoria más fiel que mi memoria?"

-Mario Benedetti, La tregua

Cover of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, Gustave Doré

4. The Raven

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gustave Doré

4.29

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century,… read more

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  • short stories
"Quoth the raven nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"La ciencia no nos a enseñado aun si la locura es o no lo mas sublime de la inteligencia"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted Nevermore"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

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5. El almohadón de plumas

By: Horacio Quiroga

4.04

Format: 14 pages, Kindle Edition

El almohadón de plumas es un cuento del escritor uruguayo Horacio Quiroga, publicado en el libro Cu… read more

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  • short stories
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6. Casa tomada [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Juan Fresan

3.95

Format: 5 pages, ebook

Cuento "Casa tomada" de Julio Cortázar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • short stories
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7. The Black Cat

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.40

Format: 300 pages,

"The Black Cat" is one of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable stories. The tale centers around a black… read more

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  • short stories
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8. Headache [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar , Dave McKean , Michael Cisco

3.84

Format: 528 pages, ebook

The late Julio Cortazar was a sickly child and spent many hours in bed. Perhaps those memories insp… read more

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  • short stories
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9. Las puertas del cielo

By: Julio Cortázar

3.91

Format: None pages, ebook

A las ocho vino Jose Maria con la noticia, casi sin rodeos me dijo que Celina acababa de morir. Me … read more

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  • short stories
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10. The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

By: Edgar Allan Poe

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Suspense, fear and the supernatural provide the center for this tale by the master prose writer. In… read more

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  • short stories
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11. Bartleby the Scrivener

By: Herman Melville

3.93

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Academics hail it as the beginning of modernism, but to readers around the world—even those daunted… read more

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  • short stories
"I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"Bartleby in a singularly mild, firm voice, replied, “I would prefer not to."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

"At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply."

-Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

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12. The Pit and the Pendulum

By: Edgar Allan Poe

4.15

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Get set for true terror in one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous short stories. We enter the mind… read more

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  • short stories
"How at least shall we distinguish its shadows from those of the tomb?"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

"He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is no…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum

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13. Martín Fierro

By: José Hernández

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

An epic poem of Argentina, in the "gauchesque" style. An adaptation of the ballad singing culture o… read more

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14. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • short stories

15. Circe

By: Julio Cortázar

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Circe" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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  • short stories
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16. Bestiario

By: Julio Cortázar

3.70

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

In these eight masterpieces there is no room for the smallest sign of stumbling or youthful underto… read more

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  • short stories
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17. The Invention of Morel

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Suzanne Jill Levine , Adolfo Bioy Casares , Norah Borges de Torre , Ruth L.C. Simms

4.00

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn… read more

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"So I was dead! The thought delighted me."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"To be sure, nothing created by man is perfect."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

"...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Invention of Morel

18. Lejana

By: Julio Cortázar

2.88

Format: None pages, ebook

Cuento "Lejana" de Julio Cortazar, originalmente incluido en el libro Bestiario en 1951. read more

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19. Bestiario [Cuento]

By: Julio Cortázar

4.11

Format: 40 pages, ebook

Cuento "Bestiario", originalmente publicado en 1951 en el libro Bestiario. read more

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20. No se lo digas a nadie

By: Jaime Bayly

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

La novela que marca una generacion. En palabras de Mario Vargas Llosa: Esta excelente novela descri… read more

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21. The Mark on the Wall

By: Virginia Woolf

3.84

Format: 95 pages,

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22. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

By: Lewis Carroll , John Tenniel , Peter Glassman

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In 1865, English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, wrote a fantastica… read more

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23. El amor, las mujeres y la vida

By: Mario Benedetti

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

Este libro reune los mejores poemas de amor de Mario Benedetti. Muchos de ellos estan a flor de lab… read more

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24. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

By: Ken Liu

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantas… read more

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25. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

By: Lewis Carroll

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Chris Riddell's brilliant new full-colour illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in a sumptuo… read more

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"it's only a dream"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"How long is forever? Sometimes just one second"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"Sometimes, I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

"what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?"

-Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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26. La teoría de los archipiélagos

By: Alice Kellen

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

«La teoría de los archipiélagos viene a decir que todos somos islas, llegamos solos a este mundo y … read more

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"Que la vida se mide en besos: los que se quedan esperando y los que se dan y son eternos."

-Alice Kellen, La teoría de los archipiélagos

27. Carta a una señorita en París

By: Julio Cortázar

3.94

Format: None pages, None

In 'Brief aan een meisje in Parijs', een keuze uit de bundels 'Final des juego' en 'Bestiario', bou… read more

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  • short stories

28. Ómnibus

By: Julio Cortázar

3.43

Format: None pages, None

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29. Los teólogos

By: Jorge Luis Borges

3.71

Format: 12 pages, ebook

Cuento "Los teólogos", de Jorge Luis Borges, originalmente publicado en el libro El Aleph, en 1949. read more

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