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Collected stories : Gimpel the fool to The letter writer: Gimpel the fool & other stories, The Spinoza of Market Street, Short Friday & other stories, The séance & other stories / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; [Ilan Stavans is the editor of this volume].

Gimpel the fool and other stories (other title)
Gimpel the fool & other stories (portion title)
Séance & other stories (portion title)
Short Friday & other stories (portion title)

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 (Author). Stavans, Ilan. (Added Author). Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1931082618
Physical Description: x, 789 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Library of America, [2004]
Copyright: ©2004

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 778-789).

Formatted Contents Note:

BIMPEL THE FOOL AND OTHER STORIES (1957): Gimpel the fool -- Gentleman from Cracow -- Wife killer -- By the light of memorial candles -- Mirror -- Little shoemakers -- Joy -- From the diary of one not born -- Old man -- Fire -- Unseen. THE SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET (1961): Spinoza of Market Street -- Black wedding -- A tale of two liars -- Shadow of a crib -- Shiddah and Kuziba -- Caricature -- Beggar said so -- Man who came back -- A piece of advice -- In the poorhouse -- Destruction of Kreshev. SHORT FRIDAY AND OTHER STORIES (1964): Taibele and her demon -- Big and little -- Blood -- Alone -- Esther Kreindel the second -- Jachid and Jechidah -- Under the knife -- Fast -- Last demon -- Yentl the Yeshiva boy -- Three tales -- Zeidlus the Pope -- A wedding in Brownsville -- I place my reliance on no man -- Cunegunde -- Short Friday. THE SEANCE AND OTHER STORIES (1968): Séance -- Slaughterer -- Dead fiddler -- Lecture -- Cockadoodledoo -- Plagiarist -- Zeitl and Rickel -- Warehouse -- Henne fire -- Getzel the monkey -- Yanda -- Needle -- Two corpses go dancing -- Parrot -- Brooch -- Letter writer.