Shadows on the Hudson, Paperback - Isaac Bashevis Singer

Reducere. "A piercing work of fiction with a strong claim to being Singer's masterpiece" (Richard Bernstein, The New York Times), Shadows on the Hudson trace...

Reducere. Set in nineteenth-century Poland, this novel tells the story of Yasha - a sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - famous for Ho...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Penitent" is the story of Joseph Shapiro, a disillusioned and aimles...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Isaac Bashevis SingerIllustration(s): 3 b/w illus.Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. Isaac Bashevis Singer is known for his mastery of storytelling - but it was not until 1966, at the age of sixty-two, that he published his first ch...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace ...

Reducere. The Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Isra...

Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his art when he is faced with the chance of riches...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, h...

Reducere. Four years after the Chmielnicki massacres of the seventeenth century, Jacob, a slave and cowherd in a Polish village high in the mountains, falls ...

Herman Broder, a refugee and Holocaust survivor, has three women in his life: Yadwiga, the loyal Polish peasant who hid him in a hayloft from the N...

Reducere. Cuando le por vez primera "Gimpel, el tonto" tuve la certeza de estar frente a un relato profundamente ingenioso y hermoso, que me permit a adentra...

Reducere. It is Warsaw in the 1930s, the years of Hitler's rise to power. Aaron Greidinger, familiarly known as Tsutsik, and an aspiring young writer, strugg...

A brand new publication of Isaac Bashevis Singer's classic tale for children. A humorous tale from a master storyteller, drawing on the much loved ...

Reducere. The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel. All the st...

Reducere. Like Isaac Bashevis Singer's fiction, this poignant memoir of his childhood in the household and rabbinical court of his father is full of spirits ...

August Kleinzahler has earned admiration for his musical, precise poems that are grounded in the people, places and language among which he has lived.

Reducere. First published as Short Friday and Other Stories, Singer's 1965 collection presents a profoundly gifted writer who can deftly immerse the reader i...

Art historian David Webster left his childhood home of Saugerties, New York ten years ago and hasn't looked back. Intelligent, successful, and prou...

Reducere. Newbery MedalNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer introduces readers to the village of Chelm in this Newbery Honor Book. Chelm is a village of fool...

Reducere. The 20, 000 German Jews who fled Hitler's Germany and settled in Washington Heights were unusual in many ways. They preserved their Jewish identity...

From the testing laboratories where engineers struggle to build a jet engine that can resist bird attacks, through the creation of the A320 in Fran...

In Fly by Wire, one of America's greatest journalists takes us on a "fascinating" (The New York Times) and sometimes humorous journey into the rapi...

Reducere. One hundred years ago. On the foggy Hudson River, a riverboat captain rescues an injured mermaid from the waters of the busiest port in the United ...

Reducere. DescriptionNo 1 NEW RELEASE NOV 2014. This is not a book about Singer sewing machines but Isaac Merritt Singer, the inventor of the first practical...

Reducere. The apostle Barnabas may be one of the most overlooked and yet most influential leaders of the New Testament. His impact on the church began with a...

A moving and explosive account of life in the peloton, from veteran cyclist Michael Barry, who retired after a 14yr career in 2012. He explores his...

Reducere. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet Willia...

Through this spectacular collection of black and white images, renowned Irish photographer, Giles Norman, captures the breathtaking wonder of Irela...

The fourth book in the acclaimed Francis Bacon Studies series, published under the aegis of The Estate of Francis Bacon.Illustrations: 120 Illustra...

Includes four stories that illuminate the author's love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness ...

Reducere. Erin Hunter's bestselling Bravelands series continues with a brand-new arc!A gorilla with a deadly secret. A leopard struck by tragedy. A gazelle c...

Reducere. Erin Hunter's bestselling Bravelands series continues with a brand-new arc!A gorilla with a deadly secret. A leopard struck by tragedy. A gazelle c...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literatur...

A stylish recover of the first Sarah Fortune novel.

A dramatic story of adventure, excitement, love and romance from the author of The Russian Concubine and The White Pearl

Reducere. An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode--the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and b...

Reducere. From the ages of six to sixteen, Sarah Rose Kairn was sexually molested by her father, often prompting suicidal thoughts as she got older. As a gro...

Reducere. Maine. Antiques. August. That's all Maggie Summer requires for a guaranteed fun getaway. But there is an unexplained urgency behind the invitation ...

Collecting the best of the author's strange tales - including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime - this volume casts a li...

Reducere. The remarkable true story of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's heroic crash landing in the Hudson River, as told by the passengers who owe him their l...

Reducere. Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past twenty years, Australian philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer has...

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off ...

Antony Gormley gives insights into his chosen medium and the processes he enters into it with.

Reducere. "I dreamed of the Outside. It was murky, like a smudge of gray sky after rain, like my mother's tears. But the call that came with the dream was cl...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Niccolo (Universita di Bergamo) GuicciardiniIllustration(s): 96 b&w illus., 9 tables; 105 Illustrations, unspeci...