Stavans Ilan Editor (83 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. 326pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. First Edition First Printing. A stock image [photo] is an accurate representation of the listed book's cover design. Complete number line at copyright page. Illustrated throughout with B&W and color art reproductions. Pages [128] clean, unmarked, binding tight and square. Covers [French flaps] clean, colors bright, minimal edge wear. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Various Artists (illustrator).…

hardcover. Condition: Fair.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Fine. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Minor corner wear otherwise, clean and sound. 329 pgs.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Featuring Dagoberto Gilb, Cristina Henriquez, Salvador Plascencia, Luis Alberto Urrea and many others.

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Hard cover. Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket. First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 528 p. Latin American Literature. Audience: General/trade. book and the jacket are as new, no markings not price clipped.

Softcover. Condition: As New. Among the most lasting voices of the most tumultuous (in his own words, "the saddest") century, a witness and a chronicler of its most decisive events, he is the author of more than thirty-five books of poetry and one of Latin America's most revered writers, the emblem of the engaged poet, an artist whose heart, always with the people, is literally consumed by passion. His work, oscillating from epic meditations on politics and history to intimate reflections on animals, food, and everyday objects, is filled with humor and affection. This bilingual selection of more than fifty of Neruda's best poems, edited and with an introduction by the distinguished Latin American scholar Ilan Stavans and brilliantly translated by an array of well-known poets, also includes some poems previously unavailable in English. I Explain a Few Things distills the poet's brilliance to its most essential and illuminates Neruda's commitment to using the pen as a calibrator for his age.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. This copy is LIKE NEW; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight. Stated first edition and first printing. The jacket is like new: absolutely intact in all ways, including perfect color and design but rubbing on front and back. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We ship all books to U.S. buyers with Tracking. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this rich collection of immigrant writing from the past four centuries, editor Ilan Stavans reveals the challenges and aspirations that define our dynamic multicultural society. The accounts range from 17th-century Jamestown to contemporary Brooklyn. The voices that make up the anthology represent a number of noteworthy figures including: Henry Roth, Vladimir Nabokov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, W.H. Auden, Charles Chaplin, andmany more. In addition to showcasing over eighty unique and magnetic voices, 'Becoming Americans' features many different writing forms including poems, stroeis, novel excerpts, travel pieces, diary entries, and memoirs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good Slipcase. First THUS. Stated 1st printing of this edition. Very good hardcover in box (no dust jacket, just the slipcase). Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; text also very good+; shelfwear to slipcase is minor. A nice copy! Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Very good hardcover in very good slipcase. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Slipcase has one spot of rubbing. Insert included. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Printing. By the time Isaac Bashevis Singer published the three short-story collections gathered in this Library of America volumeA Friend of Kafka (1970), A Crown of Feathers (1973), and Passions (1975)he had made his home in America for nearly four decades. Earning his living as a columnist for the Yiddish newspaper Forverts (The Jewish Daily Forward), he had risen from nearly complete anonymity outside of his Yiddish readership to international celebrity as the last of the great Yiddish fiction writers, as Anzia Yzierska once called him. Awarded prizes, fêted in the United States and abroad, eagerly sought for lectures and interviews, he had brought about this remarkable transformation primarily though the translation of his stories. Often collaborating with his translators, Singer intended the English version of his stories to be regarded not as diminished approximations of his Yiddish stories but as works shaped by the author in the language of his adopted homeland.The sixty-five stories in Collected Stories: A Friend of Kafka to Passionsthe second of three volumesreflect Singers origins in Poland and his long exile in America. Although he continued to write tales drawing on Jewish folk traditions and supernaturalism, many of his stories from the late 1960s and early 1970s take place in the United States, as Singer explored the psychic devastation wrought by the Nazi genocide on Holocaust survivors (The Cafeteria), evoked the fragility of transplanted forms of Jewish life and belief (The Cabalist of East Broadway), and reflected on the spiritual hazards of worldly success in America (Old Love). Stories such as A Day in Coney Island, A Tutor in the Village, and The Sonbased on Singers reunion with his son Israel Zamir after a twenty-year separationshow Singer blurring the line between autobiography and fiction, a tendency that marks much of his later writing.Green cloth. 856pp. Bound in ribbon page marker. Decorated end papers. First Printing. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. This copy is LIKE NEW; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight. Apparent first edition (unstated but earliest appearance of the book). STATED FIRST PRINTING. The jacket is also like new: absolutely intact in all ways, including perfect color and design. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. All shipments within U.S. sent with Tracking. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. This new anthology contains fiction, memoirs, essays, and poetry from twenty-eight writers who span more than 150 years. Included are Emma Lazarus's legendary poem 'The New Colossus,' inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty; the hypnotizing prose of Greece-born, Switzerland-based Albert Cohen; Nobel Prize-winner Elias Canetti's ruminations on Europe before World War II; Memmi's identifying quest as an Arab Jew in France; Primo Levi's testimonyon the Holocaust; and A.B. Yehoshua's epic stories set in Israel today.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. NEW. Tiny spots top edge. Fresh bright strong clean jacket boards text. No remainder or other markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. In English. Surface wear inside front cover from removed label (?), pencil marks on fly. Wear and quarter-inch tear/surface tears on bottom of spine. Former Collector.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1997. Oxford University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0195092341. 518 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Leah Lococo. Jacket painting by Frida Kahlo, The Bus (El Camion), 1929. keywords: Latin America Essays Anthology Literature. DESCRIPTION - In The Oxford Book of Latin American Essays, Ilan Stavans provides an anthology that is as vast, as varied, and as fascinating as the region it represents. While retaining much of the flavor of Latin American fiction-the dazzling metaphors, richness of language, and sheer imaginative bravado-these essays give us the more intellectual, critical, and self-reflexive side of the dreaming mind that has so thoroughly entranced the literary world. From Baldomero Sanin Cano's lacerating critique of Theodore Roosevelt to Ezequiel Martinez Estrada's reverential reading of Thoreau; from Pablo Neruda's passionate Nobel acceptance speech to Mario Vargas Llosa's penetrating analysis of the destruction of the Incas; from Isabel Allende's and Carlos Fuentes's personal accounts of their writing to Gabriel Garcia Marquez's playful repudiation of the umbrella and Rosario FerrE's complex assessment of the role of the translator, this volume gives us the whole spectrum of concerns that have animated some of the greatest writers of our time. Of course, the political struggles that have afflicted the region for centuries-the 'endemic dictatorships resembling tropical fevers,' as Augusto Roa Bastos calls them-exert a constant pressure on the writing gathered here. Indeed, it is the attempt to understand the effects of history and politics on personal, cultural, and literary identities that makes these essays so compelling. Enrique Anderson Imbert asserts that 'the history of the essay does not show us a limbo of indecisive people or apprentices, but an emphatic assembly of spirits who felt confident, ingenious, and aware.' Includes selections by Andres Bello, Jorge Amado, Julio Cortazar, Clarice Lispector, Octavio Paz, Ariel Dorfman, Manuel Puig, and many others. inventory #24771. …

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 226 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 312 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.