Collected stories : One night in Brazil to The death of Methuselah / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Presents a collection of short stories, including "Brother Beetle" and "The Jew from Babylon" along with ten previously unpublished stories.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
Other Authors: Stavans, Ilan
Other title:Short stories. Selections. English
Brian E. Lebowitz Collection of 20th Century Jewish American Literature.
Format: Book
Language:English
Yiddish
Donor:Lebowitz copy gift of Brian E. Lebowitz.
Published: New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Old love (1979). One night in Brazil
  • Yochna and Shmelke
  • Two
  • The psychic journey
  • Elka and Meier
  • A party in Miami Beach
  • Two weddings and one divorce
  • A cage for Satan
  • Brother Beetle
  • The boy knows the truth
  • There are no coincidences
  • Not for the Sabbath
  • The safe deposit
  • The betrayer of Israel
  • Tanhum
  • The manuscript
  • The power of darkness
  • The bus.
  • from The collected stories (1982). A night in the poorhouse
  • Escape from civilization
  • Vanvild Kava
  • The reencounter
  • Moon and madness.
  • The image and other stories (1985). Advice
  • One day of happiness
  • The bond
  • The interview
  • The divorce
  • Strong as death is love
  • Why Heisherik was born
  • The enemy
  • Remnants
  • On the way to the poorhouse
  • Loshikl
  • The pocket remembered
  • The secret
  • A nest egg for paradise
  • The conference
  • Miracles
  • The litigants
  • A telephone call on Yom Kippur
  • Strangers
  • The mistake
  • Confused
  • The image.
  • from Gifts (1985). The trap
  • The smuggler
  • Gifts.
  • from The death of Methuselah and other stories (1988). The Jew from Babylon
  • The house friend
  • Burial at sea
  • The recluse
  • Disguised
  • The accuser and the accused
  • A peephole in the gate
  • The bitter truth
  • The impresario
  • Logarithms
  • Runners to nowhere
  • The missing line
  • The hotel
  • Dazzled
  • Sabbath in Gehenna
  • The last gaze
  • The death of Methuselah.
  • Uncollected stories. The bird
  • "My adventures as an idealist"
  • Exes
  • Between shadows
  • Hershele and Hanele, or the power of a dream
  • Pity
  • The angry man
  • The mathematician
  • The building project
  • The painting
  • Morris and Timna
  • Two
  • Eulogy to a shoelace.