(Tell us about your favorite short story.) There are too ma… - Cynthia Ozick

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(Tell us about your favorite short story.) There are too many to be tempted to isolate only one, so here are five: “Lighea” (sometimes titled “The Professor and the Mermaid”), by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; “My Quarrel With Hersh Rasseyner,” by Chaim Grade; Chekhov’s “Ward Six”; Tolstoy’s “The Death of Ivan Ilych”; James’s “The Beast in the Jungle” (everyone’s autobiography).

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Cynthia Ozick (born April 17, 1928) is a Jewish American short story writer, novelist, and essayist.

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Birth Name: Cynthia Shoshana Ozick

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He who cries, "What do I care about universality? I only know what is in me," does not know even that.

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