Collected Stories
2021
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Isaac Bashevis Singer's self-selected anthology of short fiction published in English from 1957 until 1981. It includes supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw, the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and postwar Jewish life from the Lower East Side to California, Miami, South America, and Israel.
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Author
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Author · 51 books
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish American author of Jewish descent, noted for his short stories. He was one of the leading figures in the Yiddish literary movement, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978. His memoir, "A Day Of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw", won the U.S. National Book Award in Children's Literature in 1970, while his collection "A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories" won the U.S. National Book Award in Fiction in 1974.
