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Isaac Bashevis Singer Collected Stories V. 3 : One Night in Brazil to the Death of Methuselah (Library of America) Hardcover – July 8, 2004

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In the wake of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978, Isaac Bashevis Singer published several volumes of short stories in collections that mingled recent work with previously untranslated stories written in Yiddish decades earlier. Stretching back to “The Jew from Babylon,” a story first published in 1932, and gathering tales such as “Brother Beetle” and “There are No Coincidences” from the 1960s, the works collected in this Library of America volume, the third of three, serve as a retrospective view of Singer’s achievement as a storyteller.

Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah also contains ten stories published in English translation for the first time, selected from the extensive collection of Singer’s papers at the University of Texas. Ranging from “Between Shadows,” an evocative, naturalistic sketch set in Warsaw, to the bittersweet melodrama “Morris and Timma,” to the beguiling fable “Hershele and Hanele, or The Power of a Dream.” These stories enrich our understanding of Singer as a writer. The volume also includes “The Bird,” “My Adventures as an Idealist,” "and “Exes,” stories published in magazines that were not included in any of Singer’s collections. Complementing the seventy-eight stories gathered here is the introduction to Gifts (1985), a version of a lecture Singer had delivered since the early 1960s—sometimes called “Why I Write as I Do”—which illuminates his biography, philosophical outlook, and literary aims.

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.
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Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to New York from Poland in 1935 and found work with the Jewish Daily Forward. Author of many novels, collections of short stories, and books for children, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America (July 8, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 915 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1931082634
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1931082631
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.32 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.14 x 1.2 x 8.13 inches
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    Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author of short stories, novels, essays, cultural criticism, memoirs, and stories for children. His career spanned nearly seven decades of literary production, at the center of which was the translation of his work from Yiddish into English, which he undertook with various collaborators and editors. Singer published widely during his lifetime, with nearly sixty stories appearing in The New Yorker, and received numerous awards and prizes, including two Newberry Honor Book Awards (1968 & 1969), two National Book Awards (1970 & 1974) and the Nobel Prize for Literature (1978). Known for fiction that portrayed 19th-century Polish Jewry as well as supernatural tales that combined Jewish mysticism with demonology, Singer was a master storyteller whose sights were set squarely on the tension between human nature and the human spirit.

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    Internationally renowned scholar, essayist, linguist, translator, editor, and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans (Mexico, 1961) is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, the publisher of Restless Books, the cofounder and academic director of Great Books Summer Program, and a consultant to the Oxford English Dictionary. His work, translated into two dozen languages, has been adapted into film, TV, theater, and radio. He has rendered "Don Quixote of La Mancha," "Alice in Wonderland," and "The Little Prince" into Spanglish.

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Jane Anne Angle
5.0 out of 5 stars IB SINGER - GOD'S GIFT TO LETTERS
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These three volumes are life-affirming, mind-blowing. Singer on Religion -- that God is the greatest ironist. That this world is filled with misery, sickness, disappointments, even horrors. Yet we still Believe! And that we should be good people so that 'just in case,' we can see Heaven one day. YESSS! Please folks, drop what ur doing and get these three volumes. Each one goes by too fast.
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Classic. Good stories
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M. HOLSTEIN
5.0 out of 5 stars the best of the 3 volumes
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It might be a matter of taste, but , for me, this third volume of Singer short stories is written by an author that has matured and improved over the years. It was nice to read all three volumes and see how Singer evolved his style over the years.
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5.0 out of 5 stars More Great I.B Singer stories.
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The usual awesome I.B Singer talent in all its splendor.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A very good read
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An excellent book. Srongly recommended for lovers of literature.Sould have been included in 'The Great BOOKS of the western world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate
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The stories are passionate well told tales. Much of the fictional/mythological content is drawn from the authors traditional Jewish background. Some of the stories are quite haunting and seem to linger for years.
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