bellow, saul

A small masterpiece...I enjoy Saul Bellow in his spreading carnivals and wonder at his energy V.S. Pritchett Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reache

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 -

A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupat

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

'Naming and Necessity' has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysi

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 st

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, expan

Gary Saul Morson brings to life the intense intellectual debates shaping two centuries of Russian writing. Dialogues of great writers with philosophic

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 d

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

A collection of treasured stories by the unchallenged master of American fictionA Penguin Classic Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been c

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 fa

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 red

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