| Description |
xi, 899 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Library of America ; 151 |
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Library of America ; 151.
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| Note |
"Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--page after t.p. verso. |
| Contents |
Old love (1979). One night in Brazil -- Yochna and Shmelke -- Two -- The psychic journey -- Elka and Meier -- A party in Miami Beach -- Two weddings and one divorce -- A cage for Satan -- Brother Beetle -- The boy knows the truth -- There are no coincidences -- Not for the Sabbath -- The safe deposit -- The betrayer of Israel -- Tanhum -- The manuscript -- The power of darkness -- The bus. |
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from The collected stories (1982). A night in the poorhouse -- Escape from civilization -- Vanvild Kava -- The reencounter -- Moon and madness. |
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The image and other stories (1985). Advice -- One day of happiness -- The bond -- The interview -- The divorce -- Strong as death is love -- Why Heisherik was born -- The enemy -- Remnants -- On the way to the poorhouse -- Loshikl -- The pocket remembered -- The secret -- A nest egg for paradise -- The conference -- Miracles -- The litigants -- A telephone call on Yom Kippur -- Strangers -- The mistake -- Confused -- The image. |
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from Gifts (1985). The trap -- The smuggler -- Gifts. |
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from The death of Methuselah and other stories (1988). The Jew from Babylon -- The house friend -- Burial at sea -- The recluse -- Disguised -- The accuser and the accused -- A peephole in the gate -- The bitter truth -- The impresario -- Logarithms -- Runners to nowhere -- The missing line -- The hotel -- Dazzled -- Sabbath in Gehenna -- The last gaze -- The death of Methuselah. |
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Uncollected stories. The bird -- "My adventures as an idealist" -- Exes -- Between shadows -- Hershele and Hanele, or the power of a dream -- Pity -- The angry man -- The mathematician -- The building project -- The painting -- Morris and Timna -- Two -- Eulogy to a shoelace. |
| Summary |
Presents a collection of short stories, including "Brother Beetle" and "The Jew from Babylon" along with ten previously unpublished stories. |
| Subject |
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 -- Translations into English.
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| Added Author |
Stavans, Ilan.
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| Added Title |
Short stories. Selections. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. Short stories. English. Selections. Collected stories. New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2004 (OCoLC)607412440 |
| ISBN |
1931082634 |
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9781931082631 |
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