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The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
LIBRA - Special PJ5129.S49 A22 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Standardized Title:
- Short stories. English
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991--Translations into English.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
- Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.
- Jews--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Jews--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 610 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996.
- Summary:
- "This a selection of forty-seven stories chosen by the [Nobel-Prize-winning] author from eight prior collections [1957-1981]."
- Contents:
- Gimpel the fool
- The gentleman from Cracow
- Joy
- The little shoemakers
- The unseen
- The Spinoza of Market Street
- The destruction of Kreshev
- Taibele and her demon
- Alone
- Yentl the Yeshiva boy
- Zeidlus the pope
- The last demon
- Short Friday
- The séance
- The slaughterer
- The dead fiddler
- Henne fire
- The letter writer
- A friend of Kafka
- The cafeteria
- The joke
- Powers
- Something is there
- A crown of feathers
- A day in Coney Island
- The cabalist of East Broadway
- A quotation from Klopstock
- A dance and a hop
- Grandfather and grandson
- Old love
- The admirer
- The yearning heifer
- A tale of two sisters
- Three encounters
- Passions
- Brother beetle
- The betrayer of Israel
- The psychic journey
- The manuscript
- The power of darkness
- The bus
- A night in the poorhouse
- Escape from civilization
- Vanvild Kava
- The reencounter
- Neighbors
- Moon and madness.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Yiddish by Saul Bellow and others.
- ISBN:
- 0374517886
- 9780374517885
- OCLC:
- 53018515
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