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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph

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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.

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The End of the End of the Earth: Essays

Jonathan Franzen

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author ofFreedom and The Corrections. Franzen’s great loves are literatureand birds, and this essay collection is a passionate argument for…

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What If We Stopped Pretending?

Jonathan Franzen

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.

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Purity

Jonathan Franzen

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections

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The Short End of the Sonnenallee

Thomas Brussig

'A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes' Jonathan Franzen
'One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life…

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Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

This is the story of the Berglunds, their son Joey, their daughter Jessica and their friend Richard Katz. It is about how we use and abuse our freedom; about the…

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Understanding Jonathan Franzen

Timothy W. Galow

Studies Jonathan Franzen's first five novels plus his most recent, Crossroads, which was published to much fanfare in 2021. He opens with the Oprah controversy - Franzen, it seems, did…

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Understanding Jonathan Franzen

Timothy W. Galow

Studies Jonathan Franzen's first five novels plus his most recent, Crossroads, which was published to much fanfare in 2021. He opens with the Oprah controversy - Franzen, it seems, did…

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Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

Stephen J. Burn (University of Glasgow, UK)

Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book offers a study of his work and attempts to articulate where American fiction is…

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Jonathan Franzen at the End of Postmodernism

Stephen J. Burn (University of Glasgow, UK)

Jonathan Franzen is one of the most influential, critically-significant and popular contemporary American novelists. This book studies his work and articulates where American fiction is headed after postmodernism. It provides…

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Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Professor Philip Weinstein (Swarthmore College, USA)

The first critical biography of Jonathan Franzen, exploring the trajectory of his career and the intersections of his life and work –

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Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage

Professor Philip Weinstein (Swarthmore College, USA)

The first critical biography of Jonathan Franzen, exploring the trajectory of his career and the intersections of his life and work –

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A Study Guide for Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections

Cengage Learning Gale

A Study Guide for Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…

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Purity

Jonathan Franzen

A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of FREEDOM and THE CORRECTIONS

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Las correcciones/ The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

Con esta historia inmisericorde de una tipica familia norteamericana, Jonathan Franzen obtuvo el National Book Award y el Premio James Tait Black Memorial, y fue finalista de los premios Pulitzer…

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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads - the first instalment of the trilogy A Key to All Mythologies - is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation…

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El fin del fin de la tierra / The End of the End of the Earth

Jonathan Franzen

With an autobiographical tone, Franzen puts on paper some of his more pressing reflections, as his worries, loves and phobias, and expectations for the future. At times controversial, at times…

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Libertad

Jonathan Franzen

It is comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the mistakes and joys of Walter and…

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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND THE GUARDIAN Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding…

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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

PRE-ORDER NOW Set in a historical moment of moral crisis, Crossroads is the stunning foundation of a sweeping investigation of human mythologies, as the Hildebrandt family navigate the political and…

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Freedom

Jonathan Franzen

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections, a darkly comedic novel about family.

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Purity

Jonathan Franzen

The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections

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The Twenty-Seventh City

Jonathan Franzen

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988

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Strong Motion

Jonathan Franzen

Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings–earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance, Louis falls…

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The End of the End of the Earth

Jonathan Franzen

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

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The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

A comic, tragic masterpiece of an American family breaking down in an age of easy fixes, Franzen’s third novel brings an old-time America into wild collision with the era of…

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Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen

Jonathan Franzen’s gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads

It’s December 23, 1971, and heavy…

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The Twenty-Seventh City

Jonathan Franzen

The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen, author of the prize winning and internationally bestselling, ‘The Corrections’.

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Strong Motion

Jonathan Franzen

The critically acclaimed second novel from the author of The Corrections.

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Farther Away

Jonathan Franzen

Acclaimed literary novelist Franzen gathers together essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years. The results document the progress of a mature mind wrestling with literature, and with…

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Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Dr. Jesus Blanco Hidalga (Independent Scholar, Spain)

Working within theoretical and critical contexts, Hidalga applies a model of the conversion/redemption narrative to the novels of Jonathan Franzen.

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Jonathan Franzen and the Romance of Community: Narratives of Salvation

Dr. Jesus Blanco Hidalga (Independent Scholar, Spain)

Working within theoretical and critical contexts, Hidalga applies a model of the conversion/redemption narrative to the novels of Jonathan Franzen.

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The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Jonathan Franzen

This book delivers the intimate memoir of Franzens growth from a small and fundamentally ridiculous person, through an excruciating and strangely happy adolescence, and into his adult life with embarrassing…

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The End of the End of the Earth

Jonathan Franzen

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author ofFreedom and The Corrections. Franzen's great loves are literatureand birds, and this essay collection is a passionate argument for…

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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don DeLillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice

Jason S. Polley

Proposes readings of justice in contemporary American literature. This book examines contemporary writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison. It concludes by observing that justice in contemporary American life…

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Kraus Project

Jonathan Franzen,Karl Kraus

Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, attacked the popular media’s manipulation of reality, the…

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Spring Awakening: A Play

Frank Wedekind

New translation of controversial German drama about adolescent sexual awakening.

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Sloan Wilson

Universally acclaimed when it was first published in 1955, the novel captured the mood of a generation. It was a sensational best-seller that was made into an award-winning film with…

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The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus

Jonathan Franzen,Karl Kraus

Franzen presents new translations and annotations of the work of early twentieth-century satirist Karl Kraus, who, via his self-published magazine Die Fackel, attacked the popular media’s manipulation of reality, the…

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Desperate Characters

Paula Fox

A towering landmark of postwar Realism… A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than carved. - David Foster Wallace

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The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

Jonathan Franzen,Sloan Wilson

A new edition of the provocative New York Times bestseller that influenced a generation, with a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen and an afterword by the author

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The Short End of the Sonnenallee

Thomas Brussig, Jonathan Franzen & Jenny Watson (trans)

'A kind of miracle ... Not only made me laugh (again and again) but brought tears to my eyes' Jonathan Franzen
'One of the most brilliant satirical novels about life…

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The Complete Peanuts 1957-1958

Charles M. Schulz

As the 1950’s close down, Peanuts enters its golden age. Linus, who had just learned to speak, becomes downright eloquent. Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom. But…

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