Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories Paperback - 1996
by Aleichem, Sholem
- Used
A superb introduction to the caustic wit and keen observations of one of the world's greatest storytellers. Included are "Tevye the Dairyman", his masterpiece and the basis for Fiddler on the Roof, and all 21 Railroad Stories, in which human nature and the various shocks of modernity are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.
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Details
- Title Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
- Author Aleichem, Sholem
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, New York
- Date October 1, 1996
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102758036
- ISBN 9780805210699 / 0805210695
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.02 x 5.14 x 0.75 in (20.37 x 13.06 x 1.91 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Jewish fiction, Jews - Russia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86024835
- Dewey Decimal Code 839.093
First line
If you're meant to strike it rich, Pan Sholem Aleichem, you may as well stay home with your slippers on, because good luck will find you there too.
From the jacket flap
Of all the characters in modern Jewish fiction, the most beloved is Tevye, the compassionate, irrepressible, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, who has been immortalized in the writings of Sholem Aleichem and in acclaimed and award-winning theatrical and film adaptations.
And no Yiddish writer was more beloved than Tevye's creator, Sholem Rabinovich (1859-1916), the "Jewish Mark Twain," who wrote under the pen name of Sholem Aleichem. Beautifully translated by Hillel Halkin, here is Sholem Aleichem's heartwarming and poignant account of Tevye and his daughters, together with the "Railroad Stories," twenty-one tales that examine human nature and modernity as they are perceived by men and women riding the trains from shtetl to shtetl.