Cynthia Ozick

• 1971
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• Mar-1976
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Introduces a New York hasidic fund raiser at tether's end, a small African nation's Polish-born international mouthpiece, a young scholar enslaved to her ideal, and a charlatan miracle worker who turns the tables on his mockers...

• Jan-1982
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A collection of readings relevant to the development of an intercultural psychology which takes into account the different circumstances, needs, values, constructions of reality, and worldviews and belief systems that significantly shape the experien...

• Aug-1983
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Joseph Brill, the headmaster of his own school and creator of its curriculum, believes he has found in Hester Lilt a kindred mind and spirit, but Hester rejects Brill when he fails to appreciate her daughter, who is Brill's student...

• Feb-1988
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A small group of Jews weave a web of intrigue and fantasy around a book reviewer's contention that he is the son of Borus Schultz, the legendary Polish writer killed by the Nazis before his magnum opus, THE MESSIAH, could be brought to light....

• Sep-1989
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From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a story about the Holocaust that "burns itself into the reader's imagination with almost surreal powers" (The New York Times)."Read this great little book of Cynthia Ozick's: It con...

• May-1996
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"[Ozick's] range of influences is obvious in the fine selections of poems and short stories as well as essays from Art & Ardor (1983) and Metaphor and Memory (1989) that Kauvar has so sensitively chosen." --Booklist

"[This collection reflects] t...

• Jun-1997
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From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private domains is the fertile subject of man...

• Jun-1997
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With dashing originality and in prose that sings like an entire choir of sirens, Cynthia Ozick relates the life and times of her most compelling fictional creation. Ruth Puttermesser lives in New York City. Her learning is monumental. Her love life i...

• Sep-2004
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A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that’s “a cause for celebration” (Ann Patchett).   In the 1930s, New York is swarming with Europe’s ousted dreamers, alien families ad...

• Apr-2008
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Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge, including one previously unpublished, from the acclaimed author of "Heir to the Glimmering World". Cynthia Ozicks new work of fiction brings together four long stories, including the novella-length Dict...

• Nov-2010
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Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors -- the work he considered his best -- but as a photographic negative, that is the p...

• Oct-2011
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From one of America's great literary figures, a new collection of essays on eminent writers and their work, and on the war between art and life. The perilous intersection of writers' lives with public and private dooms is the fertile subject of many ...

• Apr-2021
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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings, now alongside four previously uncollected storiesIn Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven el...

• Apr-2021
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• Mar-2025
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A monumental hardcover collection of the best of Ozick's stories and essays, drawn from across the six-decade career of one of our preeminent writers--just in time for her 97th birthday, and with a new introduction by the authorSelected by Cynthia Oz...

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Money and conscience are at the heart of Cynthia Ozick's masterly first novel, narrated by a nameless young woman and set in the private world of wealthy New York, the dire landscape of postwar Europe, and the mythical groves of a Shakespearean isle....