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Collected stories : Gimpel the fool to the Letter writer / Isaac Bashevis Singer.
Van Pelt Library PJ5129.S49 A2 2004c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Series:
- Library of America ; 149.
- Library of America ; 149
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991--Translations into English.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x, 789 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2004]
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "The Mirror."
- Contents:
- Gimpel the fool and other stories (1957). Gimpel the fool
- The gentleman from Cracow
- The wife killer
- By the light of memorial candles
- The mirror
- The little shoemakers
- Joy
- From the diary of one not born
- The old man
- Fire
- The unseen.
- The Spinoza of Market Street (1961). The Spinoza of Market Street
- The black wedding
- A tale of two liars
- The shadow of a crib
- Shiddah and Kuziba
- Caricature
- The beggar said so
- The man who came back
- A piece of advice
- In the poorhouse
- The destruction of Kreshev.
- Short Friday and other stories (1964). Taibele and her demon
- Big and little
- Blood
- Alone
- Esther Kreindel the second
- Jachid and Jechidah
- Under the knife
- The fast
- The last demon
- Yentl the Yeshiva boy
- Three tales
- Zeidlus the Pope
- A wedding in Brownsville
- I place my reliance on no man
- Cunegunde
- Short Friday.
- The séance and other stories (1968). The séance
- The slaughterer
- The dead fiddler
- The Lecture
- Cockadoodledoo
- The plagiarist
- Zeitl and Rickel
- The warehouse
- Henne fire
- Getzel the monkey
- Yanda
- The needle
- Two corpses go dancing
- The parrot
- The brooch
- The letter writer.
- Notes:
- "Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--Page after t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 778-783).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. Short stories. Selections. English. Collected stories.
- ISBN:
- 1931082618
- 9781931082617
- OCLC:
- 53846656
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