Short Stories : : Collected Works of A.M. Klein / / ed. by M.W. Steinberg, A.M. Klein.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• HerausgeberIn: Klein, A.M. ,; Steinberg, M.W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [1983]; ©1983
• Year of Publication: 1983
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)

A.M. Klein's reputation as a writer on his poetry and to a lesser extent on his remarkable poetic novel The Second Scroll. But he also wrote many short stories over a period of more than a quarter of a century. Until now few people have been aware of their existence; many exist only in manuscri...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• Biographical Chronology
• Epistle Theological
• Prophet in Our Midst: A Story for Passover
• By the Profit of a Beard
• The Lost Twins
• The Triumph of Zalman Tiktiner
• The Parliament of Fowles : A Short Story
• The Chanukah Dreidel
• The Meed of the Minnesinger: A Vivid Short Story Based on the Life of a Great Thirteenth-Century Poet
• Master of the Horn
• The Parrot and the Goat
• The Bald-Headed Monarch
• Too Many Princes
• Once upon a Time ...
• Shmelka
• The Seventh Scroll
• Blood and Iron A Satire on Modern German Ideology
• Friends, Romans, Hungrymen
• Beggars I Have Known
• A Myriad-Minded Man
• Whom God Hath Joined
• Yclept a Pip
• No Traveller Returns ...
• Portrait of an Executioner
• The Tale of the Marvellous Parrot
• Memoirs of a Campaigner
• Detective Story, or A Likely Story
• We Who Are About to Be Born: A Parable
• One More Utopia
• The Trail of 'Clupea Harengus' The Scientific Detective Story and How She Is Writ for Summer Reading
• Kapusitchka
• ... And It Shall Come to Pass
• And the Mome Raths Outgrabe
• Letter from Afar
• A Fable
• The Bells of Sobor Spasitula
• Textual Notes and Emendations
• Notes