Title: The Lottery in Babylon

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Title: The Lottery in Babylon Title Record # 96873
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Date: 1973-00-00
Variant Title of: La lotería en Babilonia [Spanish] (1941) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

Note: Translated by an unknown or an uncredited translator First appeared in Sur, 1941, followed by the 1941 collection El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan (The Garden of Forking Paths), which in turn became part one of Ficciones (Fictions), 1944.

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Publications

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Into the Unknown: Eleven Tales of Imagination	1973-00-00	ed. Terry Carr	Thomas Nelson	0-8407-6342-5	$6.50^?$: US dollar	192	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
The Slaying of the Dragon: Modern Tales of the Playful Imagination	1984-08-00	ed. Franz Rottensteiner	Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	0-15-182975-6	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xv+ 303	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Hieronymus Bosch

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Review by Marc Berley (1999) in Commentary, July-August 1999