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Isaac Bashevis Singer: the Collected Stories : A Library of America Boxed Set by Isaac Bashevis Singer (2015, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLibrary of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-101598534556
ISBN-139781598534559
eBay Product ID (ePID)211902925
Product Key Features
Book TitleIsaac Bashevis Singer: the Collected Stories : a Library of America Boxed Set
Number of Pages1 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2015
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, European / Eastern (See Also Russian & Former Soviet Union), Jewish
GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections
AuthorIsaac Bashevis Singer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height3.9 in
Item Weight76 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
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ReviewsThe Library of America's celebration of Singer is magnificently done and a welcome tribute to one of the most inventive and captivating voices of the 20th century. -- Jeff Simon, The Buffalo News The lucid complexity of his storytelling is still startling-his blend of folktale mysticism and urbane cosmopolitanism, ironic humor and tragic fatalism, retains its ability to shock, while his tales of exile and assimilation still haunt. -- The Boston Globe
Dewey Edition19
Number of Volumes3 vols.
Volume NumberSet
Dewey Decimal839/.0933
SynopsisNow in a deluxe boxed set, The Library of America's three-volume collector's edition of the beloved Nobel Prize-winning writer and master storyteller. First pubished ten years ago to mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of ten American writers to be awarded the Nobel Prize and perhaps the most influential and beloved Jewish American author, I saac Bashevis Singer: T he Collected Stories is now reissued in a deluxe boxed set. Beginning with "Gimpel the Fool," whose title story brought Singer to prominence in America when translated from Yiddish by Saul Bellow in 1953, and concluding with "The Death of Methuselah," the collection published three years before his death in 1991, this three-volume edition brings together for the first time all the story collections Singer published in English in the versions he called his "second originals"--translations he supervised and collaborated on himself, revising as he worked. In addition, Collected Stories includes thirteen previously uncollected stories from the Ransom Center archives. Here are nearly 200 stories in all--the full range of Singer's vision encompassing Old World shtetl and New World exile. Born in Poland in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer was raised in the traditional culture that was to be annihilated during World War II, and his haunting stories testify to the richness of that vanished world. Singer's Old World stories reveal a wild, mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism evocative of both local storytelling traditions and dark undercurrents born of Singer's own concerns and obsessions. As a special feature, the boxed set also includes Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album , a compact illustrated biography accompanied by appreciations of and anecdotes about Singer from some of today's leading writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries., First pubished ten years ago to mark the centennial of the birth of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of ten American writers to be awarded the Nobel Prize and perhaps the most influential and beloved Jewish American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer: The Collected Stories is now reissued in a deluxe boxed set. Beginning with 'Gimpel the Fool,' whose title story brought Singer to prominence in America when translated from Yiddish by Saul Bellow in 1953, and concluding with 'The Death of Methuselah,' the collection published three years before his death in 1991, this three-volume edition brings together for the first time all the story collections Singer published in English in the versions he called his 'second originals' - translations he supervised and collaborated on himself, revising as he worked. In addition, Collected Stories includes thirteen previously uncollected stories from the Ransom Center archives. Here are nearly 200 stories in all - the full range of Singer's vision encompassing Old World shtetl and New World exile. Born in Poland in 1904 into a family of rabbis, Singer was raised in the traditional culture that was to be annihilated during World War II, and his haunting stories testify to the richness of that vanished world. Singer's Old World stories reveal a wild, mischievous, often disturbing supernaturalism evocative of both local storytelling traditions and dark undercurrents born of Singer's own concerns and obsessions. As a special feature, the boxed set also includes Isaac Bashevis Singer: An Album, a compact illustrated biography accompanied by appreciations of and anecdotes about Singer from some of today's leading writers, including Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Francine Prose, Nicholas Dawidoff, and Joyce Carol Oates, among others.
LC Classification NumberPJ5129.S49
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