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Gimpel the Fool: And Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
34.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories
Isaac Bashevis Singer's first collection of stories, "Gimpel the Fool," is a landmark work that has attracted international acclaim since it was first published in 1957. In Saul Bellow's masterly translation, the title story follows the exploits of Gimpel, an ingenuous baker who is universally deceived ...Show more
The Collected Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
35.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by Singer himself from across the whole of his career, brings together the best of his writing. From the supernatural "Taibele and Her Demon" to the poignant "The Unseen", and fro ...Show more
The Last Demon by Isaac Bashevis Singer
7.00 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I, a demon, bear witness that there are no more demons left. Why demons, when man himself is a demon? Why persuade to evil someone who is already convinced? I am the last of the persuaders'. Isaac Bashevis Singer, who won the Nobel Prize in 1978, is best-remembered for his humane and moving short stori ...Show more
The Slave : A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls in love with Wanda, his master's daughter. Even after he is ransomed, he finds he can't live without her, and the two escape together to a distant Jewish com ...Show more
Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer
50.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books
'[A] delightful and distinguished book [of seven tales] from middle European folklore [by the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature].' 'BL. 1967 Newbery Honor BookNotable Children's Books of 1940-1970 (ALA)1966 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)"Best of the Best" Children's Books 1966-1978 (SLJ ...Show more
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