Isaac Bashevis Singer - Nobel Prize in Literature, 1978 (27 books)

ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER (1902-1991) was a Polish-born Jewish-American author and a leading figure in the Yiddish literary movement. He was awarded two U.S. National Book Awards, one in Children's Literature for his memoir A DAY OF PLEASURE (1970) and one in Fiction for his collection, A CROWN OF FEATHERS (1974). In 1978, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his impassioned narrative art which, with roots in a Polish-Jewish cultural tradition, brings universal human conditions to life."

Singer is best known as a writer of short stories, which have been published in more than a dozen collections. His stories and novels reflect the world of the East European Jewry in which he grew up. After his many years in America, his stories also portrayed the world of the immigrants and their pursuit of an elusive American dream, which seems always beyond reach. In the end, Singer remains an unquestionably Jewish writer, yet his precise views about Jews, Judaism, and the Jewish God are open to interpretation. Whatever they were, they lay at the center of his literary art.

This collection features a large selection of his novels, short stories, juvenile literature, and autobiographical writings.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

Novels

* THE ESTATE (FSG, 1969)

* THE FAMILY MOSKAT (Knopf, 1950). Translated by A. H. Gross.

* THE KING OF THE FIELDS (FSG, 1988).

* THE MANOR (FSG, 1967).

* MESHUGAH (FSG, 1994). -- ePUB/MOBI

* THE PENITENT (FSG, 1983).

* REACHES OF HEAVEN: A Story of the Baal Shem Tov (FSG, 1980). Illustrated by Ira Moskowitz.

* SATAN IN GORAY (FSG, 1996). -- ePUB/MOBI

* SHOSHA (FSG, 1978).

* THE SLAVE (FSG, 1962). Translated by the author and Cecil Hemley.


Short Stories

* THE COLLECTED STORIES (FSG, 1982 / Penguin, 1984). -- PDF + ePUB/MOBI

* A CROWN OF FEATHERS & OTHER STORIES (Fawcett Crest, 1974).

* A FRIEND OF KAFKA & OTHER STORIES (Dell, 1972).

* GIMPEL THE FOOL & OTHER STORIES (FSG, 1988).

* THE LAST DEMON (Penguin, 2011). -- ePUB/MOBI

* OLD LOVE (FSG, 1979).

* THE SÉANCE & OTHER STORIES (FSG, 1968).

* SHORT FRIDAY & OTHER STORIES (Fawcett Crest, 1977). -- PDF + ePUB/MOBI

* THE SPINOZA OF MARKET STREET (Fawcett Crest, 1980). -- PDF + ePUB/MOBI


Autobiographical Writings

* A DAY OF PLEASURE: Stories of a Boy Growing Up In Warsaw (FSG, 1969). Photographs by Roman Vishniac.

* IN MY FATHER'S COURT (Fawcett Crest, 1966)

* MORE STORIES FROM MY FATHER'S COURT (FSG, 2000). Translated by Curt Leviant. -- PDF + ePUB/MOBI

* A YOUNG MAN IN SEARCH OF LOVE (Doubleday, 1978). Paintings and Drawings by Raphael Soyer.


Juvenile Literature

* THE POWER OF LIGHT: Eight Stories for Hanukkah (FSG, 1980). Illustrated by Irene Lieblich.

* STORIES FOR CHILDREN (FSG, 1985).

* WHEN SHLEMIEL WENT TO WARSAW & OTHER STORIES (Dell, 1979). Illustrated by Margot Zemach. Translated by the author and Elizabeth Shuh.


Other

* CONVERSATIONS WITH ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER, co-authored with Richard Burgin (Doubleday, 1985) -- PDF.