Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cahan, Abraham (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486224279 ISBN-13: 9780486224275 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1970 Annotation: "Yekl" (1896), the first novel upon which the much acclaimed film "Hester Street" was based, was probably the first novel in English that had a New York East Side immigrant as its hero. Reviewing it, William Dean Howells hailed Cahan as "a new star of realism." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Cultural Heritage |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 71091354 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - New York |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "No American fiction of the year merits recognition more than this Russian's stories of Yiddish life. ... Mr. Cahan] is a humorist, and his humor does not spare the sordid and uncouth aspects of the character whose pathos he so tenderly reveals." -- William Dean Howells |