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Product Description: Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural 'Taibele and Her Demon' to the poignant 'The Unseen', and from gentle humour in 'Gimpel the Fool' to tragedy with 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy', these tales explore good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervour and personal failings, within the traditional shtetls of pre-war Eastern Europe and post-war America...read more
Hardcover:
9780444428639, titled "Metallic Superlattices: Artificially Structured Materials" | Elsevier Science Ltd, November 1, 1987, cover price $203.25 | also contains Metallic Superlattices: Artificially Structured Materials | About this edition: The recent progress in evaporating techniques for preparing ultrathin films has made it possible to control each layer thickness on an atomic scale.
9780374126315 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1982, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre
Paperback:
9780374517885, titled "The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1983, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre
Prebinding:
9781439512937, titled "The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises.
Hardcover:
9780374384203 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 1, 1974, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: As each animal boasts of the qualities he feels make him especially worthy to go on Noah's ark, Noah takes a particular liking to the dove.
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9780374483821 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1987, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: As each animal boasts of the qualities he feels make him especially worthy to go on Noah's ark, Noah takes a particular liking to the dove.
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9780374181284 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1988, cover price $18.95
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9780141391588, titled "King of the Fields" | Gardners Books, August 2, 2012, cover price $25.35 | About this edition: From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, comes a fictional exploration of primitive history.
9780374529086 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery.
9780140186680 | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1998), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Singer's late novel, a magical and resonant fable, recreates the birth of the Polish nation.
9780452263123 | Plume, October 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In an age of darkness, Poland lives under the iron fist of Krol Rudy until their leader, Cybula, returns with the knowledge of an outside, civilized world and his leadership heralds tremendous changes and a new era
Hardcover:
9780816136414 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1984), cover price $13.95
9780374230647, titled "Penitent" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1983, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life
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9780141391571 | Gardners Books, August 2, 2012, cover price $25.35 | also contains The Penitent
9780449206126 | Reprint edition (Fawcett Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | also contains Angularjs Overview | About this edition: Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life
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9780141391595 | Gardners Books, August 2, 2012, cover price $25.35
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9788427901254 | Italian edition edition (Noguer Y Caralt Editores, June 30, 2011), cover price $13.99
An autobiographical collection of episodes remembered by the son of a rabbi
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9780374505929 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1991), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: An autobiographical collection of episodes remembered by the son of a rabbi
9780449212448 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $3.50
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9781439508893 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $25.00
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9788437609393 | Catedra Ediciones, June 30, 2007, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Rare book
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9788496489967 | Celesa, June 30, 2007, cover price $29.95
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9780064401470 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1984), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm
Reinforced:
9780606023740 | Demco Media, October 1, 1984, cover price $16.93 | About this edition: Humorous illustrations accompany these seven fairy tales that have originated from European Jewish folklore
Prebinding:
9781435209251 | Paw Prints, June 28, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tells the stories of four sisters who mixed up their feet in bed one night, the first shlemiel, and the famous and foolish seven Elders of Chelm
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9780374530648 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 3, 2007, cover price $20.00
9780374503925 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Relates the trials and tribulations of the family of Reb Meshulam Moskat, residents of the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, as they struggle through the hardships of the First World War and its aftermath
9780449204665 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, February 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | also contains An Unknown Future: A Boy's Journey to Manhood | About this edition: The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel.
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9780374530259 | Italian edition edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 10, 2006), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Isaac Bashevis Singerâs first collection of stories, Gimpel the Fool, is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957.
9780374500528 | Reissue edition (Noonday Pr, October 1, 1988), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories on Jewish life in Europe and the United States filled with vivid vignettes of the Yiddish way.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781572707290, titled "Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories" | Blackstone Audio Inc, February 28, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories on Jewish life in Europe and the United States filled with vivid vignettes of the Yiddish way.
Cassette/Spoken Word:
9780886901295, titled "Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories" | Audio Partners, November 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When Isaac Bashevis Singer won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979, the Swedish Academy praised his "impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life.
Paperback:
9788466627078 | Ediciones B, December 5, 2006, cover price $8.95
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9788466623438 | Ediciones B, May 30, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Living as a Jewish refugee in New York City just after World War II, wealthy and religious Boris Makaver provides his home as a meeting place for fellow Polish Jews who have fled fascist Europe.
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9780299205447 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, December 15, 2004, cover price $19.95
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9780299206246 | Univ of Wisconsin Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Â Â Â Â Isaac Bashevis Singer, the Polish-born Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate, and New York documentary photographer Bruce Davidson collaborated on a surreal feature film made in 1973, entitled Isaac Bashevis Singerâs Nightmare and Mrs.
Hardcover:
9781931082617 | Library of America, July 8, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including 'Gimpel the Fool,' 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,' and 'The Mirror.
Hardcover:
9781931082631 | Library of America, July 8, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories, including 'Brother Beetle' and 'The Jew from Babylon' along with ten previously unpublished stories.
Hardcover:
9781931082624 | Library of America, July 8, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of sixty-five short stories.
Hardcover:
9780374120290 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Homeless and penniless, David Bendiner, a young Jewish writer, arrives in 1922 Warsaw--his only asset being a certificate entitling him to immigrate to Palestine--and becomes involved with three different women
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9780374529345 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2003, cover price $20.00
9780140187854 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Penniless and homeless, David Benediner, a young writer, arrives in Warsaw with two contacts: a young woman and a Zionist functionary who informs him that he has qualified for a certificate to emigrate to Palestine.
9780452270923 | Reprint edition (Plume, November 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | also contains La Passagere: L'aventure Americaine | About this edition: David Bendiger, a penniless, aspiring young writer, arrives in Warsaw in 1922, and he explores his romantic passions, his religious past, and his literary future.
Hardcover:
9788483069257 | Italian edition edition (Debate Editorial, July 31, 2003), cover price $26.95
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9780374255114 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1991, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: With his life torn apart by the death of his son, Arturo, Max Barabander leaves Buenos Aires to return to his native Warsaw, where he revisits his past in the thieves' quarter and embarks on a mindless pursuit of sex as an escape from loneliness and fear
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9780374529079 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $19.00
9780140188424 | Penguin USA, May 1, 1996, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience.
9780452267862 | Reprint edition (Plumsock Mesoamerican Studies, April 1, 1992), cover price $9.95 | also contains Knotweed 100 Page Lined Journal: Blank 100 Page Lined Journal for Your Thoughts, Ideas, and Inspiration | About this edition: An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience.
Hardcover:
9780374208479 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Presents a recently discovered, posthumously published novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author
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9780374529116 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $26.00
9780449240670 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, December 1, 1977), cover price $2.95
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9780374529093 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Meshugah, Singer's third posthumous novel, is an impressive work which the author published serially in 1981 - 83.
9780452273849 | Reprint edition (Plume, April 1, 1995), cover price $12.95
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