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COLLECTED STORIES 3 VOLS by SINGER ISAAC BASHEVIS
Category: Fiction
Now in a deluxe boxed set, The Library of America's three-volume collector's edition of the beloved Nobel Prize-winning writer and master storyteller. First pubished ten years ago to mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of ten American writers to be awarded the Nobel Prize and ...Show more
Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Judaica
The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, "Gimpel the Fool, " in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Euro ...Show more
Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Singer Isaac Bashevis
Category: General Fiction
Enemies: A Love Story by SINGER ISAAC BASHEVIS
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; and Tamara, his first wife. Unsure of who he really is, what he wants and whether he can ever find peace, ...Show more
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: History | Series: Vintage Classics
Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending p ...Show more
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Judaica
Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits and demons, washerwomen and rabbis, beggars and rich men. This rememberance of Singer's pious father, his rational yet adoring mother, and the never-ending p ...Show more
King of the Fields by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history. Singer's novel portrays an era of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Set in Poland in the dark ages, it describes the brutality, preju ...Show more
Love and Exile by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Fiction
From pre-First World War Warsaw to the New York of the 1930s, Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer traces the early years of his life in this autobiographical trilogy. In "A Little Boy in Search of God", he remembers his bookish boyhood as the son of an Orthodox rabbi, equally absorbed in science, p ...Show more
Satan In Goray by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage classics
In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder, famine and demonic spirits, the stargazers have reported seeing one Sabbatai Zevi, robed in purple, bedecked with jewels, riding a wild lion into Jerusalem. Meanwhile, as dark forces gather, the prophetess Rechele prepares to be the Devil's bride.
Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Fiction
"A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" - Richard Bernstein, "The New York Times". 'Shadows On The Hudson" traces the intertwined lives of a group of Jewish refugees in New York City in the late 1940s. At its centre is Boris Makaver, a pious, wealthy businessman wh ...Show more
Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Fiction
It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches and a passport to America. But as the Nazis threaten to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood sweetheart - still ...Show more
Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Category: Judaica
Thirty-six stories by the Nobel Prize winner, including some of his most famous such as "Zlateh the Goat," "Mazel and Shlimazel," and "The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp."