A Day of Pleasure (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1908–1918
- Setting: Warsaw and Bilgoray, Poland
- Principal Characters: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pinchos Menachem Singer, Bathsheba Singer, Israel Joshua Singer
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Adolescence, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Jews or Jewish life, Storytelling, City life, World War I, Poland or Polish people, Judaism
- Locales: Warsaw, Poland
Form and Content
Fourteen of the nineteen stories in A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw appeared earlier in Isaac Bashevis Singer’s first, much longer autobiographical work, In My Father’s Court (1966). For this book, these stories have been modified somewhat for younger readers. The five remaining stories, which complement them, are collected here for the first time. All nineteen were written in Singer’s native tongue, Yiddish, and then translated by others into English.
Fifteen of the stories take place in Warsaw, where...
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