Hungry Hearts

by Anzia Yezierska

Overview

Hungry Hearts is a collection of short stories by Jewish/American writer Anzia Yezierska first published in 1920. The short stories deal with the European Jewish immigrant experience from the perspective of fictional female Jews, each story depicting a different aspect of their trials and tribulations in poverty in New York City at the turn of the 20th century. The stories were adapted into a film of the same name.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781515448501
Publisher:	Wilder Publications
Publication date:	01/01/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Anzia Yezierska (1882-1970) was born in Poland and came to the Lower East Side of New York with her family in 1890 when she was nine years old. By the 1920s she had risen out of poverty and become a successful writer of stories, novels; all autobiographical; and an autobiography, Red Ribbon on a White Horse. Her novel Bread Givers is considered a classic of Jewish American fiction. Her acclaimed books also include How I Found America: Collected Stories and The Open Cage.

Blanche H. Gelfant is a scholar and critic of 20th century American literature. Gelfant is the recipient of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literary scholarship. Her books range from Cross-Cultural Reckonings: A Triptych of Russian, American, and Canadian Texts, to Women Writing in America: Voices in Collage, and the pioneering study The American City Novel. She is the Robert E. Maxwell Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of English Emerita at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

Hungry HeartsIntroduction by Blanche H. Gelfant
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text

HUNGRY HEARTS

Wings
Hunger
The Lost "Beautifulness"
The Free Vacation House
The Miracle
Where Lovers Dream
Soap and Water
"The Fat of the Land"
My Own People
How I Found America