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Collected Stories : : One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991. Book - 2004 Fiction 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 2 out of 5

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"Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume"--page after t.p. verso.
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 poor house -- 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.
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 impresaro -- 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.

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SERIES
Library of America
151.



PUBLISHED
New York : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: xi, 899 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1931082634 :

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Stavans, Ilan.

SUBJECTS
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904- -- Translations into English.
Short stories.