Collected Stories (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Stories (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Some stories recount the events of a single day, while some are contained in a wider

There Is Simply Too Much to Think about: Collected Nonfiction (Bellow Saul)(Paperback)

'Bellow's nonfiction has the same strengths as his stories and novels: a dynamic responsiveness to character, place, and time (or era) . . . And you wonder--what other highbrow writer, or indeed lowbrow writer has such a reflexive grasp of the street, the machine, the law courts, the rackets?'

To Jerusalem and Back (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

In the mid-1970s, Saul Bellow visited Israel and To Jerusalem and Back is his account of his time there. Immersing himself in its landscape and culture, he records the opinions, passions and dreams of Israelis of varying viewpoints - from Prime Minister Rabin to a kibbutznik escaped from the Warsaw

It All Adds Up - From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Stories - Collected Stories (Sontag Susan)(Paperback / softback)

Actual (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Presents a story which belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged

Mr Sammler's Planet (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Mr. Artur Sammler, Holocaust survivor, 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 the promises of the future (moon landings, endless possibilities). His Cyclopean gaze

Victim (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 in the park one day and finds himself being accused of ruining the man's life, he half believes it. He can't shake the man

Collected Short Stories (Rhys Jean)(Paperback / softback)

Ravelstein (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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

Dean's December (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

Dean Corde is a man of position and authority at a Chicago university. He accompanies his wife to Bucharest where her mother, a celebrated figure, lies dying in a state hospital. As he tries to help her grapple with an unfeeling bureaucracy, news filters through to him of mounting problems left

Henderson the Rain King (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 earns him the admiration of the tribe - but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero

Dangling Man (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 on the past, his psychological reaction to his inactivity while war rages around him, and his uneasy

Adventures of Augie March (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his

Collected Stories (Cheever John)(Paperback / softback)

John Cheever's Collected Stories explores the delicate psychological frameworks of 20th century suburbia. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HANIF KUREISHIThis outstanding collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever shows the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the

Herzog (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 sees himself as a survivor, raging against private disasters and the myriad catastrophes of the modern

Humboldt's Gift (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 life has reached a low point. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may

Seize the Day (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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, and in

More Die of Heartbreak (Bellow Saul)(Paperback / softback)

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 with his own problems, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves 'knee-deep

Collected Short Stories Volume 2 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

Collected Stories (Bowen Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

Features seventy-nine stories such as: love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, and of London during the

Collected Short Stories Volume 3 (Maugham W. Somerset)(Paperback / softback)

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War

Collected Stories (Bowles Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Presents stories of abandonment and vengeance, in which extreme situations lead to disturbing conclusions. A missionary is sent to a place so distant he finds his God has no power there; a husband abandons his wife as they honeymoon in the South American jungle; and a boy's drug-induced

Collected Stories (Ozick Cynthia)(Paperback / softback)

Masterly collection of short stories by an American novelist at the height of her