# Temptations

Author: Pinski, David, 1872-1959; Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71439

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Temptations+Pinski&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The same traits that distinguish David Pinski as a playwright characterise him also as a writer of short fiction. The noted Yiddish author is concerned chiefly with the probing of the human soul,—not that intangible and inconsequential theme of so many vapourings, dubbed mystic and symbolistic by the literary labellers,—but the hidden mainspring that initiates, and often guides, our actions. Pinski seeks to penetrate into the secret of human motive. It is not enough for him to depict the deed; he would plumb, if possible, the genetic impulse. That is why, if he must be classified, one places him among the psychological realists. He is at his best faithful to both the inner and the outer l...

## Chapters

- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/temptations-71439/chapters/13/index.md)