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Saul Bellow
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, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor…
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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…
For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie’s…
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Gerald Sorin
Saul Bellow: "I Was a Jew and an American and a Writer" offers a fresh and original perspective on the life and works of Saul Bellow, the Nobel Prize winner…
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Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a brilliantly insightful journey through literary America from the late 1940s to the 1990s, from political figures like Roosevelt and…
Mr Artur Sammler, intellectual and occasional lecturer at Columbia University in 1960s New York City, is a registrar of madness, a refined and civilized being caught among people crazy with…
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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…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
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The Adventures of Augie March set the stage for Bellow’s Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later…
A brilliant professor and his friend share a celebratory trip to Paris where they explore thoughts on mortality, philosophy, history, old suits, and friends old and new. The mood turns…
Presents a wide-ranging selection of essays on Saul Bellow’s fiction. The essays employ a variety of literary approaches, and all of the full-length novels and two of the most important…
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The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America.
Is Moses Herzog losing his mind? His formidable wife Madeleine has left him for his best friend, and Herzog is left alone with his whirling thoughts - yet he still…
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When his induction into the army is delayed, Joseph finds himself facing a year of idleness. This journal presents an account of his restless wanderings through Chicago’s streets, his musings…
In this collection of interviews spanning 1953 to 1991, Saul Bellow speaks with his interviewers of the changing role of fiction, the literary establishment, and the place of literature in…
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Bellow was winner of the Pulitzer Prize, three National Book Awards, and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Including letters to William Faulkner, John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, Martin Amis…
Ralph Ellison
The complete collection of Ellison's reviews, criticism, and interviews is a witty and literate compendium and the only complete edition on the market.
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, respected, and honored writers.
A Political Companion to Saul Bellow examines the author’s novels, essays, short stories, and letters in order to illuminate his evolution from liberal to neoconservative.
Gerhard P. Bach
Though one of the most significant American writers of the 20th century, Saul Bellow has continually elicited conflicting responses from critics.
Mark Connelly
A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His career produced 14 novels…
Malcolm Bradbury
Looks at the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow as a leading figure in the development of contemporary fiction, one whose work has, however, been challenged by more experimental, ‘post-modern’ developments…
This Companion demonstrates the complexity of this formative writer, emphasizing the ways in which Bellow’s works speak to the changing conditions of American identity and culture from the post-war period…
In six dark tales Saul Bellow presents the human experience in all its presposterousness, poignancy and pathos. It includes Leaving the Yellow House , The Old System , Looking for…
Asa Leventhal, a temporary bachelor, attempts to find relief from a heat wave in New York City only to be accosted in the park by a scruffy stranger who accuses…
A collection of work by Saul Bellow which includes articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces and an Autobiography of Ideas .
Once a young man of noble longings, the middle-aged Charlie has found his life cluttered with comic absurdities and his career ground to a halt. But his best friend Humboldt…
Kenneth Trachtenberg, has left his native Paris to be near his beloved uncle Benn Crader, who lives from affair to affair and from bliss to breakdown . As Kenneth grapples…
You sit at dinner with charming people in a dining room like any other. Yet you know that your hostess has lost a son and that her sister lost children…
This novel is a portrait of one day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm, a man on the brink of despair. He is a man who has lost his wife…
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Henderson has come to Africa on a spiritual safari, a quest for the truth. His feats of strength, his passion for life, and, most importantly, his inadvertant success in bringing…
A story of a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson’s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life…
Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets a down-at-heel stranger…
Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother lies dying in a state hospital. As he…
In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel. This book presents his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams…
Greg Bellow
A revealing, very human portrait of a literary icon who hid behind stories, jokes, metaphors, and partial truths, never letting the public see his true self.
National Book Award winner, Herzog traces five days in the life of a man whose wife has recently left him for his best friend. Through the device of letter writing…
Following the pursuits of a lifelong dreamer, this National Book Award winner written on a grand scale is a heroic comedy that celebrates life, both fantastic and realistic. (NOTE: All…
An old friend acts from the grave to give a gentle but resilient middle-aged intellectual an opportunity for triumph over all that makes his life seem staid and superfluous.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Saul Bellow’s Herzog, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
Kyung-Ae Kim
This book is an enlightening study on some of the problems involved in interpreting Bellow’s novels. It examines the current critical approaches and discusses Bellow’s literary position in close connection…
