02781cam a2200397 4500 608333213 TxAuBib 20221101120000.0 031125s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003066055 9781931082617 alk. paper $35.00 1931082618 alk. paper $35.00 (OCoLC)53846656 TxAuBib eng yid Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 Short stories. Short stories English Selections. Collected stories [BOOK] : Gimpel the fool to The letter writer / Isaac Bashevis Singer. Gimpel the fool & other stories. Short Friday & other stories. Séance & other stories. New York, N.Y. : Distributed in the United States by Penguin Putnam, 2004. x, 789 pages ; 21 cm. Library of America ; 149 "Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--leaf following t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 778-789). 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. Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including "Gimpel the Fool," "Yentl the Yeshiva Boy," and "The Mirror.". 20221101. Singer, Isaac Bashevis Translations into English. Short stories. Nobel Prize winning authors. Stavans, Ilan. Library of America ; 149.