Browse by category
God Bless You Mr Rosewater by Vonnegut, Kurt
Category: Fiction
God Bless You Mr Rosewater is a novel about people - their pleasures, pains and perversions - and money. It is a penetrating satire on insanity - a millionaire's private lunacy, the inherited obsessions of a famous family and the collective madness that grips a whole nation.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Category: Fiction
"God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" is a comic masterpiece. Eliot Rosewater, drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation, is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature...with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. The result is Vonnegut's funniest satire, ...Show more
Grand Central Winter : Stories from the Street by Kurt (FRW) Lee; Vonnegut Stringer
Category: Biography
Hocus Pocus or, What's the Hurry, Son? by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Classics
After you have read one of Kurt Vonnegut's gleefully pessimistic novels, his words go on colouring your world for a long time afterwards...not to read him would be to miss out on lessons that need to be learned about the age we live in' Sunday Times. 'It is all done with voice. Vonnegut is a master of t ...Show more
If This Isn't Nice, What Is? - The Graduation Speeches and Other Words to Live By by Kurt Vonnegut; Dan Wakefield (Selected by)
Category: Non-Fiction
Selected and introduced by fellow novelist and friend Dan Wakefield, the speeches in If This Isn't Nice, What Is? capture a different side of Kurt Vonnegut for the first time in book form. There are nine speeches, seven given at colleges, one to the Indiana Civil Liberties Union, one on the occasion of ...Show more
If This isn't Nice, What is? (Much) Expanded Second Edition: Graduation Speeches and Other Advice to the Young by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Best known as one of America's most astonishing and enduring contemporary novelists, Kurt Vonnegut was also a celebrated commencement address giver. If This Isn't Nice, What Is? collects the speeches and words of wisdom Vonnegut has shared with new graduates over the years. This much-expanded edition no ...Show more
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Classics
Pay attention please to the life of Walter F. Starbuck. Nineteen-hundred and Thirteen gave him the gift of life. Nineteenth-hundred and Thirty-one sent him to Harvard. Nineteen-hundred and Thirty-eight got him a job in the federal government. Nineteen-hundred and Seventy gave him a job in the Nixon Whit ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Complete Stories by Dave (FRW) Dan (EDT); Eggers Jerome (EDT); Wakefield Kurt; Klinkowitz Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
Here for the first time is the complete short fiction of one of the 20th century's greatest writers. More than half of Vonnegut's output was short fiction, and never before has the world had occasion to wrestle with it all together. Organized thematically--War, Women, Science, Romance, Work Ethic v. Fam ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut - Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Fiction
This collection of Vonnegut's letters is the autobiography he never wrote - from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: 'Don't let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you. Here I am fifty-five years old, and I never felt b ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters by Kurt Vonnegut
Category: Accessories
This collection includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; a letter to the CEO of Eagle Shirtmakers with a crackpot scheme to manufacture "atomic" bow ties; angry lett ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut : The Complete Novel Set by Sidney (EDT) Kurt; Offit Vonnegut
Category: Fiction | Series: Library of America
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
Category: Biography
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more