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Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
19.99 AUD
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
Him with His Foot in His Mouth by Saul Bellow
5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was making the gestures of a close and precious friend he was fattening my soul in a coop till it was ready for killing.' Vital, exuberant, streetwise and philosophizing, Nobel Prize winner Saul B ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics
"I think it A Work of genius, I think it The Work of a Genius, I think it brilliant, splendid, etc. If there is literature (and this proves there is) this is where it's at." -John CheeverA Penguin ClassicSaul Bellow's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel explores the long friendship between Charlie Citrine, a y ...Show more
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
22.99 AUD
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 by Saul Bellow
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bellow was America's writer, and in this superb collection of nonfiction essays he demonstrated his vigilance of and loyalty to his country over a span of 45 years. From his earliest piece, a war report from Spain written for the "Partisan Review" (1948), to his Novel Prize lecture (1976), to a Forbes a ...Show more
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future by Saul Bellow
22.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
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Category: Fiction | 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
More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of "More Die of Heartbreak", has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to be near his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restles ...Show more
Mr Sammler's Planet by Saul Bellow
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 refle ...Show more
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In time for the centennial of his birth, the Nobel Prize winner s moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in memoir form, it follows two university professors, one of whom ...Show more
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
24.99 AUD
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