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Dangling Man by Saul Bellow
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Expecting to be inducted into the army, Joseph has given up his job and carefully prepared for his departure to the battlefront. When a series of mix-ups delays his induction, he finds himself facing a year of idleness. "Dangling Man" is his journal, a wonderful account of his restless wanderings throug ...Show more
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels." (San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a ...Show more
Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
"It blazes as fiercly and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels."(San Francisco Examiner) Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middl ...Show more
Herzog by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A masterful twist on the epistolary novel, Saul Bellow's "Herzog" is part confessional, part exorcism, and a wholly unique achievement in postmodern fiction. This "Penguin Classics" edition includes an introduction by Malcolm Bradbury in "Penguin Modern Classics". Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His fo ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine, a young man inflamed with a love for literature, were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point: his career is at a standstill, and he's enmeshed in a ...Show more
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A fascinating journey through literary America over the last forty years, guided by one of the "most gifted chroniclers in the Western World" (The Times London]) A Penguin Classic "Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have." --The New York Times Book Review In It A ...Show more
Leaving the Yellow House (Mini Modern Classics) by Saul Bellow
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern
She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impos ...Show more
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir. But, the mood turns somber once Ravelstein su ...Show more
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Fading charmer, Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood ...Show more
The Actual by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction
The story behind "The Actual" belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This grand-scale heroic comedy tells the story of the exuberant young Augie, a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Depression. While his neighborhood friends all settle down into their various chosen professions, Augie, as particular as an aristocrat, demands a special destiny. He latches on to a wil ...Show more
The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Saul Bellow's American masterpiece, "The Adventures of Augie March" includes an introduction by Christopher Hitchens in "Penguin Modern Classics". A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, i ...Show more