The Topsy-Turvy Emperor of China

The mean and ugly Emperor decrees that evil, ugliness, and stupidity are to be worshipped by everyone but cannot banish the appreciation of goodness, beauty, and learning in his kingdom.

The topsy-turvy Emperor of China

isaac-bashevis-singer

Harper&Row

Humorous illustrations accompany these seven fairy tales that have originated from European Jewish folklore

Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories

Children's Books

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Harper Row Publishers

Cover worn and marked, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Satan In Goray (Vintage Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage Publishing

The Family Moskat (Vintage Classics)

Vintage

The Seance

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin Books, Ltd.

The Slave - bk986; Penguin Books; Isaac Bashevis Singer; pocket_book; 1974

The Slave

Penguin??Books

Enemies: A Love Story

A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's holocaust and is living in America with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive

History & Criticism

The fiftieth anniversary of a lost classic—a deceptively sophisticated tale of sexual compulsion and one man’s flight from loveYasha Mazur is a Houdini-like performer whose skill has made him famous throughout eastern Poland. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a freethinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant Jewish wife, a Gentile assistant who travels with him, and a mistress in every town. For Yasha is an escape artist not only onstage but in life, a man who lives under the spell of his own hypnotic effect on women. Now, though, his exploits are catching up with him, and he is tempted to make one final escape—from his wife and his homeland and the last tendrils of his father’s religion.Set in Warsaw and the shtetls of the 1870s—but first published in 1960—Isaac Bashevis Singer’s second novel hides a haunting psychological portrait inside a beguiling parable. At its heart, this is a book about the burden of sexual freedom. As such, it belongs on a small shelf with such mid-century classics as Rabbit, Run; The Adventures of Augie March; and The Moviegoer. As Milton Hindus wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “The pathos of the ending may move the reader to tears, but they are not sentimental tears . . . [Singer] is a writer of far greater than ordinary powers.”

The Magician of Lublin

The Family Moskat

Penguin

The Spinoza of Market Street

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