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Title: The Magic Barrel

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Title: The Magic Barrel Title Record # 2500350
Author: Bernard Malamud
Date: 1958-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: Originally published in the author's collection The Magic Barrel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1958)
Synopsis: A rabbinical student who wants a wife deals with a professional matchmaker.
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Publications

Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Composition & Literary Form: An Anthology: Second Edition 1978-00-00 ed. Nancy J. Hawkey, Nicholas A. Salerno Winthrop Publishers 0-87626-160-8   xv+
526
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth  
Fictions: Second Edition 1989-00-00 ed. C. Wade Jennings, Joseph F. Trimmer Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-527326-4   xi+
1230
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Bernard Faucon  
The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow 1994-00-00 ed. Thomas K. Parkes State Street Press 0-681-64687-X   xvii+
1003
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
The American Short Story: A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar by the Great American Writers from Washington Irving to Saul Bellow 1994-00-00 ed. Thomas K. Parkes Galahad Books 0-88365-873-9   xvii+
1003
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth Winslow Homer  
Look Who's Talking: An Anthology of Voices in the Modern American Short Story date unknown ed. Bruce Weber Washington Square Press 0-671-68723-9
$4.95?$: US dollar. ISO code: USD
xxii+
362
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
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