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Book Title
Isaac Bashevis Singer : Collected Stories Vol. 1 (Loa #149)
Publication Name
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1
Title
Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1
Subtitle
(LOA #149): Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer
Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Contributor
Ilan Stavans (Edited by)
Format
Hardcover
ISBN-10
1931082618
EAN
9781931082617
ISBN
9781931082617
Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Release Date
08/07/2004
Release Year
2004
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.9in
Item Length
8.2in
Series
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer Edition
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Jewish
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Number of Pages
832 Pages

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Beginning with "Gimpel the Fool," the story that brought Isaac Bashevis Singer to prominence in America in the 1950s, this Library of America volume is the first of three gathering most of Singer's short fiction. These stories were published in English in the versions he called his "second originals," translations that he supervised and on which he himself often collaborated, revising his Yiddish texts as he worked. Born in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer grew up in a devout household in Warsaw's Jewish quarter, but he also spent time in the villages and market towns of eastern Poland, most notably Bilgoray, where he took refuge with his mother and brother during World War I. He had firsthand exposure to forms of Jewish folk culture that were destroyed by the Nazis, and many of his works testify to the richness of that annihilated world. In his stories set in Poland, Singer drew upon vernacular traditions for tales imbued with a wild, sometimes mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism that was an outgrowth of local storytelling but containing dark undercurrents born of his own concerns and obsessions. At the same time, his skeptical but never dismissive engagement with religion and spirituality--and the opposing forces of secularism--enabled him to take part in the creative ferment of Jewish modernism but also distance himself from its politics and literary methods. In addition to "Gimpel the Fool," this volume--drawn from Singer's first four English-language collections of stories originally published in the 1950s and 1960s--contains some of Singer's most beloved tales: "The Spinoza of Market Street," "The Gentleman from Cracow," "Taibele and Her Demon," and "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," the basis of a hit Broadway play and the film Yentl . LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1931082618
ISBN-13
9781931082617
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30207901

Product Key Features

Book Title
Isaac Bashevis Singer : Collected Stories Vol. 1 (Loa #149)
Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Jewish
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Literary Criticism, Fiction
Number of Pages
832 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Pj5129.S49a273 2004
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Copyright Date
2004
Lccn
2003-066055
Dewey Decimal
839/.133
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Library of America Isaac Bashevis Singer Edition Ser.
Dewey Edition
22

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