Henne Fire Summary
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Henne Fire Summary

Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story "Henne Fire" first appeared in the magazine Playboy and then in his 1968 collection entitled The Séance. Singer wrote this story, as he did his other works, in Yiddish, despite being fluent in English; the author and Dorothea Straus translated the story into English. Many critics and readers considered Singer a master of the short story form; among his numerous awards, he received the 1978 Nobel Prize in...

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