COLLECTED STORIES

New York: Harper & Row, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. These twenty-six brilliant and enchanting short stories, by the 1982 Nobel Laureate, are collected in this volume for the first time. They explore, with a deceptive simplicity, the different faces of reality, the miracles and mysteries of life, and the humorous, tragic and ironic patterns of the human condition. Published in many countries and languages and universally praised, the stories, dating from 1947, are the work of a master. (Inventory #: ESB8814) (truncated)