Labyrinths (1962, 1964, 1970, 1983) is a collection of short stories and essays by the writer Jorge Luis Borges. It was translated into English, published soon after Borges won the International Publishers' Prize with Samuel Beckett. It includes, among other stories, "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", "The Garden of Forking Paths", and "The Library of Babel", three of Borges's most famous stories. The edition, published only in English, was edited by James E. Irby and Donald A. Yates, with a preface by André Maurois of the Académie française and an introduction by Irby. Contents Besides the different stories and essays by Borges mentioned below, the book also contains a preface and introduction, an elegy for Borges, a chronology of Borges's life, and a bibliography. Stories "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" "The Garden of Forking Paths" "The Lottery in Babylon" "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" "The Circular Ruins" "The Library of Babel" "Funes the Memorious" "The Shape of the Sword" "Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" "Death and the Compass" "The Secret Miracle" "Three Versions of Judas" "The Sect of the Phoenix" "The Immortal" "The Theologians" "Story of the Warrior and the Captive" "Emma Zunz" "The House of Asterion" "Deutsches Requiem" "Averroes' Search" "The Zahir" "The Waiting" "The God's Script" Stories 1-13 are from Ficciones; 14-23 are from The Aleph. Essays "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" "The Wall and the Books" "The Fearful Sphere of Pascal" "Partial Magic in the Quixote" "Valéry as Symbol" "Kafka and His Precursors" "Avatars of the Tortoise" "The Mirror of Enigmas" "A Note on (toward) Bernard Shaw" "A New Refutation of Time" All essays are from Otras inquisiciones (1952), except "The Argentine Writer and Tradition" and "Avatars of the Tortoise" which are from Discusión (1932). Parables "Inferno, I, 32" "Paradiso, XXXI, 108" "Ragnarök" "Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote" "The Witness" "A Problem" "Borges and I" "Everything and Nothing" All parables are from The Maker. Analysis André Maurois in the Preface of Labyrinths provides a critical overview of Borges's work. He makes three main points: first, that Borges was highly influenced by his wide and obscure reading, making the assertion that, "His sources are innumerable and unexpected. Borges has read everything, and especially what nobody reads any more: the Cabalists, the Alexandrine Greeks, medieval philosophers. His erudition is not profound ― he asks of it only flashes of lightning and ideas ― but it is vast.".