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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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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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The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.
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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…
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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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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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
She had lived by delays; she…
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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…
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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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…
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…
Saul Bellow, A Mosaic, a collection of essays based on papers presented at the Saul Bellow International Conference at Haifa University in Israel (April 1987), brings together a fresh mosaic…
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.
M.A. Quayum
Bellow is widely considered to be the best and certainly most studied American novelist since World War II. Quayum (Asian and Asian-American studies, State U. of New York-Binghamton) here intends…
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…
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…
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.
Saul Bellow is one of the twentieth century’s most influential, respected, and honored writers.
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…
A collection of work by Saul Bellow which includes articles, lectures, essays, travel pieces and an Autobiography of Ideas .
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1975 –Copyright page.
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.
Greg Bellow
In this warm, affectionate, yet strikingly honest look inside the life of one of America’s greatest 20th-century writers, the son of the Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow offers a view…
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…
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…
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.
David Mikics
A leading literary critic’s innovative study of how the Nobel Prize-winning author turned life into art.
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Justyna Kociatkiewicz
Rev. and edited version of the author’s doctoral thesis, Adam Mickiewicz University, 2001.
Marianne M. Friedrich
This first comprehensive study of Saul Bellow’s short fiction examines a diversity of Bellow’s realistic characters ranging from the singularity of simple women to the complexity of his talking intellectuals…
A Study Guide for Saul Bellow’s A Silver Dish, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
A Study Guide for Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
