A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories

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First English-language edition
publ. Farrar Straus & Giroux

A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories is a 1973 book of short stories written by Isaac Bashevis Singer. It shared the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction with Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.[1] The twenty-four stories in this collection were translated from Yiddish by Singer, Laurie Colwin, and others.[2]

The stories appear in the following sequence:[3]

  • "A Crown of Feathers"
  • "A Day in Coney Island"
  • "The Captive"
  • "The Blizzard"
  • "Property"
  • "The Lantuch"
  • "The Son from America"
  • "The Briefcase"
  • "The Cabalist of East Broadway"
  • "The Bishop's Robe"
  • "A Quotation from Klopstock"
  • "The Magazine"
  • "Lost"
  • "The Prodigy"
  • "The Third One"
  • "The Recluse"
  • "A Dance and a Hop"
  • "Her Son"
  • "The Egotist"
  • "The Beard"
  • "The Dance"
  • "On a Wagon"
  • "Neighbors"
  • "Grandfather and Grandson"

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