In My Father's Court

In My Father's Court
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780374505929
ISBN-13 : 0374505926
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis In My Father's Court by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Translation of: Mayn otaotn's beas-din-shotub.

Shosha

Shosha
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0374524807
ISBN-13 : 9780374524807
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Shosha by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Shosha is a hauntingly lyrical love story set in Jewish Warsaw on the eve of its annihilation. Aaron Greidinger, an aspiring Yiddish writer and the son of a distinguished Hasidic rabbi, struggles to be true to his art when faced with the chance at riches and a passport to America. But as he and the rest of the Writers' Club wait in horror for Nazi Germany to invade Poland, Aaron rediscovers Shosha, his childhood love-still living on Krochmalna Street, still mysteriously childlike herself-who has been waiting for him all these years.

Old Love

Old Love
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 0099286467
ISBN-13 : 9780099286462
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Love by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

This classic collection explores the varieties of wisdom gained with age and especially those that teach us how to love, as "in love the young are just beginners and the art of loving matures with age and experience". Tales of curious marriages and divorce mingle with psychic experiences and curses, acts of bravery and loneliness, love and hatred.

The Penitent

The Penitent
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9780374531539
ISBN-13 : 0374531536
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Penitent by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Joseph Shapiro, a New York businessman, experiences a mid-life crisis. He leaves his wife, his mistress, his business and goes to Israel in search of religious Orthodoxy.

Stories for Children

Stories for Children
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 1632921936
ISBN-13 : 9781632921932
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Stories for Children by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer is known for his mastery of storytelling - but it was not until 1966, at the age of sixty-two, that he published his first children's book, Zlateh the Goat, a Newbery Honor Book and instant classic. Singer went on to write many stories for children, most of which are included in this volume, along with a brief introduction and a special epilogue, "Are Children the Ultimate Literary Critics?" The collection presents exuberant and timeless tales for children rich in fantasy and deeply rooted in the lost cultural tradition of his native Poland. A number of the stories appear in book form for the first time - and all have been translated from the Yiddish with the author's personal supervision.

Shadows on the Hudson

Shadows on the Hudson
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 564
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0374531226
ISBN-13 : 9780374531225
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Shadows on the Hudson by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

From the Upper West Side to Miami's pastel resorts, "Shadows on the Hudson" traces the intertwined destiny of survivors in the aftermath of the Holocaust.

Scum

Scum
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 230
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374529079
ISBN-13 : 0374529078
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Scum by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

An authentic literary great, Singer was an author whose extraordinary talents won him a worldwide audience. And with this impressive novel, he proved that he was at the height of his creative power until his recent death at age 86. Scum evokes the teeming life of 1906 Warsaw's backstreets. Max Barabander, distraught over the recent death of his son, flees the life of wealth and respectability he has attained in Buenos Aires, to return to the poverty and shadows of his youth spent in Warsaw. He fears impotence which leads him to the pursuit of mindless sex with five different women who view him only as an escape from their drab lives. The author recalls the teeming life of 1906 Jewish Warsaw in this impressive novel of changing mores and values. . .

The Slave

The Slave
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 328
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0374506809
ISBN-13 : 9780374506803
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis The Slave by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.

Old Truths and New Clichés

Old Truths and New Clichés
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 248
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691217635
ISBN-13 : 0691217637
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Old Truths and New Clichés by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

A collection of eighteen essays that represent Singer's fullest treatment of topics he engaged with throughout his life. Most of the selected essays were originally published in Yiddish or delivered as lectures but have never been published in English before

Collected Stories

Collected Stories
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 888
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780141196770
ISBN-13 : 0141196777
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Collected Stories by : Isaac Bashevis Singer

The author's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of short stories brings together the best of his writing. They look at good and evil, passion and restraint, religious fervour and personal failings.