Collected stories : One night in Brazil to The death of Methuselah / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Author/creator Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Other author Stavans, Ilan.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, ©2004.
Descriptionxi, 899 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects

Uniform titleShort stories. Selections. English
SeriesLibrary of America ; 151
Library of America ; 151. ^A515081
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 -- from The collected stories (1982): -- A night in the poorhouse -- Escape from civilization -- Vanvild Kava -- The reencounter -- Moon and madness -- 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 --
Contents from Gifts (1985): -- The trap -- The smuggler -- Gifts -- 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 -- 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.
General note"Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--page after t.p. verso.
LCCN 2003066081
ISBN1931082634 (alk. paper)

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