Title: A Universal History of Iniquity

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Title: A Universal History of Iniquity Title Record # 950073
Author: Jorge Luis Borges
Date: 1998-00-00
Variant Title of: Historia universal de la infamia [Spanish] (1935) [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers]
Type: COLLECTION
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English

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Translated by Andrew Hurley. Wikipedia gives the date for Andrew Hurley's translations as 2004, however they first appeared in Collected Fictions in the US in 1998.
Most stories were originally published individually in the Argentine newspaper Critica between 1933 and 1934.
Ángel Flores, in his influential 1954 study of "magical realism", set the beginning of the movement with this book. (Wikipedia)

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
A Universal History of Iniquity	2001-04-05	Jorge Luis Borges	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-118385-3		105	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Hieronymus Bosch
A Universal History of Iniquity	2004-08-00	Jorge Luis Borges	Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics)	0-14-243789-1	$12.00^?$: US dollar	xii+ 100	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	M. C. Escher
A Universal History of Iniquity	date unknown	Jorge Luis Borges	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)	0-14-118385-3	£9.99^?£: UK pound	105	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll	Hieronymus Bosch

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