Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories Vol. 1
(LOA #149): Gimpel the Fool to The Letter Writer
- Hardcover
832 pages
- Release Date
8 July 2004
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082617 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082618 |
| Author: | Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ilan Stavans |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 832 |
| Release Date: | 8 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 531g |
| Dimensions: | 207mm x 132mm |
| Series: | Library of America (Hardcover) |
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About The Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to New York from Poland in 1935 and found work with the Jewish Daily Forward. Author of many novels, collections of short stories, and books for children, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.
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