Tuesday, August 9, 2011

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By 1905, he started to take his first lessons with a British teacher. He wrote his first story the following year and also wrote a short essay in English about Greek mythology. By the time he was 9 years old, he translated from English 'The Happy Prince' by Oscar Wilde, which was published in the newspaper 'The Country'. In the village of Palermo, which by that period was a village comprising mainly of of immigrants, many of them knew of the adventures of the compadritos that later filled his fictional stories. Borges graduated to the fourth grade directly from Primary School. By that time, his family was spending its summer vacations in Adrogue or in a house belonging to some Uruguayan relatives, named The Haedo."

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