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Shmuel Yosef Agnon

Works by Shmuel Yosef Agnon

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by N Glatzer

Agnon, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1966 was the first writer in Modern Hebrew prose to give the language real international standing. He was though, radically unlike other great, Nobel-winning writers of the century like Thomas Mann or Albert Camus. Some of his preoccupations, (more...)

Only Yesterday [Buy Direct]

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Benjamin Harshav
Translated by Barbara Harshav

Shira [Buy Direct]

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by Zeva Shapiro
Original title: Shirah

A Simple Stoy

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by H Halkin

Dwelling Place of My People, a: Sixteen Stories of the Chassidim

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by H Russell
Original title: Elu ve-elu (a Selection of..)

Two Tales: Betrothed, and Edo and Enam

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by W Lever
Original title: Shevu’at emunim; Edo ve-Enam

This book comprises two novellas that expose the reader to Agnon’s stately prose at greater length than his short stories but less overwhelmingly than in a novel like his Shira.

The first novella, Betrothed, (more...)

In the Heart of the Seas

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by I Lask

The Bridal Canopy [Buy Direct]

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by I M Lask
Original title: Hakhnasat kalah

In the Heart of the Seas

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by I M Lask
Original title: Bi-levav yamim

A Guest for the Night [Buy Direct]

by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Translated by M et al Louvish
Original title: Oreah natah la-lun

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